Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/2] kvm: support -dedicated cpu-pm=on|off

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

On 06/19/2018 10:17 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 16/06/2018 00:29, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>   
>> +static QemuOptsList qemu_dedicated_opts = {
>> +    .name = "dedicated",
>> +    .head = QTAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(qemu_dedicated_opts.head),
>> +    .desc = {
>> +        {
>> +            .name = "mem-lock",
>> +            .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
>> +        },
>> +        {
>> +            .name = "cpu-pm",
>> +            .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
>> +        },
>> +        { /* end of list */ }
>> +    },
>> +};
>> +
> 
> Let the bikeshedding begin!
> 
> 1) Should we deprecate -realtime?
> 
> 2) Maybe -hostresource?

What further things might we add in the future?

-dedicated sounds wrong (it is an adjective, while most of our options 
are nouns - thing -machine, -drive, -object, ...)

-hostresource at least sounds like a noun, but is long to type.  But at 
least '-hostresource cpu-pm=on' reads reasonably well.

About the only other noun I could think of would be '-feature cpu-pm=on'.

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