On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 15:33 +0100, Andrew Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 03:21:02PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > I agree with everything except the naming: why would
> > 
> >   kvm-no-adjvtime=off  vtime is adjusted      (default)
> >   kvm-no-adjvtime=on   vtime is not adjusted
> > 
> > be better than
> > 
> >   kvm-adjvtime=on   vtime is adjusted      (default)
> >   kvm-adjvtime=off  vtime is not adjusted
> > 
> > ? Both offer the exact same amount of flexibility, but the latter has
> > the advantage of not introducing any unwieldy double negatives.
> 
> A default of 'off' == 0 means not setting anything at all. There's
> already precedent for 'kvm-no*' prefixed cpu features,
> 
> kvm-no-smi-migration
> kvm-nopiodelay

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean that the array where
you store CPU features is 0-inizialized, so it's more convenient to
have off (0) as the default because it means you don't have to touch
it beforehand? Or something different?

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization


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