From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
Qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>,
"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" <wainersm@redhat.com>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Max Reitz" <mreitz@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Priority of -accel (was: [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:43:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA-MTrAbZG7hR355MzQp1GTXUHeZodTJKidLT+piaw9fGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-AEKKL-0c4jpV5bMeAWszWndYWbqoaOqJBnDqn82N_AA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 11:00, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 10:40, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> > Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
> > > What about "-accel any" or "-accel fastest" or something similar?
> >
> > "any" is just ambiguous, "fastest" is just begging for me to find a
> > micro-benchmark that TCG outperforms on ;-)
> >
> > "-accel default" could be considered to have vibes of Do The Right
> > Thing (tm) and could in time actually become so!
>
> That would be a weird choice, because it's not actually the default!
>
> The obvious analogy here is with -cpu best, -machine gic-version=best,
> etc -- use "best". You can argue that it's maybe not got the ideal
> set of connotations, but I think that trying to be consistent about
> the name we use for "do the thing that seems to be the most
> sensible for the host/etc that we've got" is worthwhile.
This is actually a load of rubbish, because the cpu option is
'max', not 'best'. I still like consistency, though :-)
-- PMM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-10 10:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-06 13:09 [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-01-06 13:16 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-07 10:03 ` Priority of -accel (was: [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option) Thomas Huth
2020-01-07 10:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-07 12:18 ` Thomas Huth
2020-01-07 12:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-07 12:54 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-01-07 14:14 ` Thomas Huth
2020-01-07 14:20 ` Priority of -accel Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-01-07 14:27 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-01-07 14:35 ` Thomas Huth
2020-01-13 14:39 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-01-13 16:14 ` Christophe de Dinechin
2020-01-13 16:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-07 14:26 ` Priority of -accel (was: [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option) Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-01-08 10:39 ` Alex Bennée
2020-01-08 10:58 ` Thomas Huth
2020-01-08 12:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-08 13:10 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-01-08 13:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-08 14:00 ` Priority of -accel Thomas Huth
2020-01-08 11:00 ` Priority of -accel (was: [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option) Peter Maydell
2020-01-10 10:43 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2020-01-07 12:29 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-01-07 12:34 ` Priority of -accel Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-01-07 12:37 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-01-07 13:55 ` Priority of -accel (was: [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option) Christophe de Dinechin
2020-01-07 14:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-07 14:42 ` Thomas Huth
2020-01-07 17:43 ` Christophe de Dinechin
2020-01-07 17:53 ` Peter Maydell
2020-01-08 9:47 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-01-13 16:17 ` Priority of -accel Markus Armbruster
2020-01-13 16:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-14 8:59 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-01-14 10:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-14 17:49 ` Christophe de Dinechin
2020-01-14 17:59 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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