Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] kvm: x86 CPU power management

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

(Cc: Thomas Huth)

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:18:00AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:

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> IMHO this really shouldn't be under the -realtime flag. I don't think
> the -realtime flag should ever have been introduced, and we certainly
> shouldn't add more stuff under it.
> 
> "-realtime" is referring to a very specific use case, while the
> properties listed under it are all general purpose features. Real
> time guests just happen to be one possible use case, but it is
> valid to use them for non-real time guests.

Given what you say above, then it sounds like the "-realtime" QEMU
option should be deprecated, and removed in a future release.

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/kashyap