From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KqD6o-0007q9-9c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:36:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KqD6m-0007pt-RZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:36:41 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41839 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqD6m-0007pm-If for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:36:40 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:33504) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KqD6m-0007r3-Bm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:36:40 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9FKdCM6022457 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:39:12 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id m9FKaNep056486 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:36:23 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m9FKaNJo015762 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:36:23 -0400 Message-ID: <48F65445.4050305@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:36:21 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1224107718-19128-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <1224107718-19128-14-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1224107718-19128-14-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 13/21] provide --accel option Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Glauber Costa Cc: jan.kiszka@siemens.com, jes@sgi.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, avi@qumranet.com, dmitry.baryshkov@siemens.com Glauber Costa wrote: > The --accel option will provide us the ability of defining which > accelerator to pick at run time. It has the advantage of not using > the not-well-accepted constructor directives, and also, of stabilishing > a way to define priorities among accelerators. > > The ones registered first, are tried first. > Logically speaking, kqemu should be two accelerators, right? -accel kqemu and -accel kqemu-kernel? They should share most of the same obviously. That would eliminate the need for the various kqemu options. Regards, Anthony Liguori