Re: Priority of -accel (was: [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option)

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 10:40, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thomas Huth <address@hidden> writes:
> > What about "-accel any" or "-accel fastest" or something similar?
>
> "any" is just ambiguous, "fastest" is just begging for me to find a
> micro-benchmark that TCG outperforms on ;-)
>
> "-accel default" could be considered to have vibes of Do The Right
> Thing (tm) and could in time actually become so!

That would be a weird choice, because it's not actually the default!

The obvious analogy here is with -cpu best, -machine gic-version=best,
etc -- use "best". You can argue that it's maybe not got the ideal
set of connotations, but I think that trying to be consistent about
the name we use for "do the thing that seems to be the most
sensible for the host/etc that we've got" is worthwhile.

thanks
-- PMM