configure: Improve TCI feature description

Users might want to enable all features, without realizing some
features have negative effect. Mention the TCI feature is slow
and experimental, hoping it will be selected knowingly.

Suggested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210125144530.2837481-3-philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index a34f91171de380eb914c24323d1b9a96b437f153..ca2cf507734ffde769e78956001461eae67acf41 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1764,7 +1764,7 @@ Advanced options (experts only):
   --with-trace-file=NAME   Full PATH,NAME of file to store traces
                            Default:trace-<pid>
   --disable-slirp          disable SLIRP userspace network connectivity
-  --enable-tcg-interpreter enable TCG with bytecode interpreter (TCI)
+  --enable-tcg-interpreter enable TCI (TCG with bytecode interpreter, experimental and slow)
   --enable-malloc-trim     enable libc malloc_trim() for memory optimization
   --oss-lib                path to OSS library
   --cpu=CPU                Build for host CPU [$cpu]

diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 95f1079829245ab0781e5e4fc943b1b558574e03..675a9c500a86e67c6ac0bf395123f54e60336f79 100644 (file)
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ option('xen_pci_passthrough', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
 option('tcg', type: 'feature', value: 'auto',
        description: 'TCG support')
 option('tcg_interpreter', type: 'boolean', value: false,
-       description: 'TCG bytecode interpreter (TCI)')
+       description: 'TCG with bytecode interpreter (experimental and slow)')
 option('cfi', type: 'boolean', value: 'false',
        description: 'Control-Flow Integrity (CFI)')
 option('cfi_debug', type: 'boolean', value: 'false',