Re: [PATCH v5 01/14] qemu-options: Improve readability of SMP related Docs

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 12/28/21 10:22, Yanan Wang wrote:
> We have a description in qemu-options.hx for each CPU topology
> parameter to explain what it exactly means, and also an extra
> declaration for the target-specific one, e.g. "for PC only"
> when describing "dies", and "for PC, it's on one die" when
> describing "cores".
> 
> Now we are going to introduce one more non-generic parameter
> "clusters", it will make the Doc less readable and  if we still
> continue to use the legacy way to describe it.
> 
> So let's at first make two tweaks of the Docs to improve the
> readability and also scalability:
> 1) In the -help text: Delete the extra specific declaration and
>    describe each topology parameter level by level. Then add a
>    note to declare that different machines may support different
>    subsets and the actual meaning of the supported parameters
>    will vary accordingly.
> 2) In the rST text: List all the sub-hierarchies currently
>    supported in QEMU, and correspondingly give an example of
>    -smp configuration for each of them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
> ---
>  qemu-options.hx | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>