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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 08/11] tcg: add options for enabling MTTCG
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Cc: Sergey Fedorov <serge.fdrv@gmail.com>, mttcg@greensocs.com, fred.konrad@greensocs.com, a.rigo@virtualopensystems.com, cota@braap.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mark.burton@greensocs.com, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, rth@twiddle.net, peter.maydell@linaro.org, claudio.fontana@huawei.com, Peter Crosthwaite <crosthwaite.peter@gmail.com>, Andreas =?utf-8?Q?F?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>


Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 11/04/2016 22:50, Sergey Fedorov wrote:
>>> > +Control multi-threaded TCG. By default QEMU will enable multi-threaded
>>> > +emulation for front/back-end combinations that are known to work. The
>>> > +user may enable it against the defaults however odd guest behaviour
>>> > +may occur.
>>> > +@end table
>>> > +ETEXI
>> Maybe we'd better use existing qemu accelerator framework and introduce
>> "-machine accel=mttcg" option?
>
> Another possibility is "-accel tcg,thread=single|multi".

That does seem a better choice.

>
> Paolo


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