On 16/10/2015 16:31, Peter Maydell wrote: > > I hadn't thought about levels, but honestly when I use KVM tracing (which > > is often measured in tens of megabytes per run) I don't care. > > In a lot of cases, especially with the TCG logging, not enabling > voluminous tracing is really important because if you turn it all > on then the system is way too slow (and can behave differently > as a result), and generates gigabytes of trace output. (-d exec > and -d cpu will do this, for instance.)
Yes, but device models are going to generate orders of magnitude smaller traces than the CPU. Since I'm not proposing to drop -d together, but rather to integrate tracing with it, we can cross that river when we reach it. Paolo
