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From: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
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To: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=2E_Berrang=E9?= <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>, huth@tuxfamily.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