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

[Eric Blake]

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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