From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kashyap Chamarthy Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] kvm: x86 CPU power management Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:06:59 +0200 Message-ID: <20180622130659.GA11827@paraplu> References: <20180612184616.90838-1-mst@redhat.com> <20180614081800.GH6355@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Eduardo Habkost , kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , huth@tuxfamily.org, Marcelo Tosatti , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini , Richard Henderson To: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=2E_Berrang=E9?= Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180614081800.GH6355@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel2=m.gmane.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org (Cc: Thomas Huth) On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:18:00AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrang=E9 wrote: [...] > 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. >=20 > "-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. [...] --=20 /kashyap