Re: Priority of -accel (was: [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option)

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 01:41:59PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 08/01/20 11:58, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >> "-accel default" could be considered to have vibes of Do The Right
> >> Thing (tm) and could in time actually become so!
> >
> > "-accel default" sounds like the default behavior that you'd also get if
> > you don't use this option at all ... what about "-accel auto" to say
> > that QEMU should pick an accelerator automatically?
> 
> Questions to answer before thinking about the name: how would it
> co-operate with other "-accel" options?  how would you pass sub-options
> to the accelerators?

If people don't have a preference for a specific accelerator, just need
"a working accelerator", then I think it is reasonable to assume they
won't want/need to pass options to the accelerators either.

"-accel default" is targetting the simple "do the right thing" use
case, so IMHO doesn't need to support per-accelerator options.

Regards,
Daniel
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