Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tests/acpi: speedup acpi tests

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 05:54:14PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> 
> On 06/09/2016 17:51, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 05:47:06PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 06/09/2016 16:55, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> >>> Use kvm acceleration if available.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> It saves a few seconds so we'll be able to add more tests.
> >>> I cc-ed Paolo to get his opinion on the correct way to look
> >>> for the kvm support.
> >>
> >> Just use "-machine accel=kvm:tcg" and let QEMU do the hard work. :)
> >>
> >> Paolo
> > 
> > Sounds good, but we really need to skip it when gsi
> > capability is not there (and when using kernel irqchip)
> > (because in that case we can't override apic irq0).
> 
> Should it just use -machine kernel_irqchip=false?
> 
> Paolo

Well that's not optimal, but still better than tcg I guess.
Does it slow us a lot?

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MST