Re: [Qemu-block] RFC: Reducing the size of entries in the qcow2 L2 cache

2017-09-25 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Mon 25 Sep 2017 10:15:49 PM CEST, John Snow wrote: >>- We need a proper name for these sub-tables that we are loading >> now. I'm actually still struggling with this :-) I can't think of >> any name that is clear enough and not too cumbersome to use (L2 >>

Re: [Qemu-block] RFC: Reducing the size of entries in the qcow2 L2 cache

2017-09-25 Thread John Snow
On 09/19/2017 11:07 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote: > Hi everyone, >- We need a proper name for these sub-tables that we are loading > now. I'm actually still struggling with this :-) I can't think of > any name that is clear enough and not too cumbersome to use (L2 > subtables? =>

Re: [Qemu-block] RFC: Reducing the size of entries in the qcow2 L2 cache

2017-09-20 Thread Alberto Garcia
On Wed 20 Sep 2017 09:06:20 AM CEST, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> |---+--+-+---+--| >> | Disk size | Cluster size | L2 cache| Standard QEMU | Patched QEMU | >> |---+--+-+---+--| >> | 16 GB

Re: [Qemu-block] RFC: Reducing the size of entries in the qcow2 L2 cache

2017-09-20 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 19.09.2017 um 17:07 hat Alberto Garcia geschrieben: > Hi everyone, > > over the past few weeks I have been testing the effects of reducing > the size of the entries in the qcow2 L2 cache. This was briefly > mentioned by Denis in the same thread where we discussed subcluster > allocation back

[Qemu-block] RFC: Reducing the size of entries in the qcow2 L2 cache

2017-09-19 Thread Alberto Garcia
Hi everyone, over the past few weeks I have been testing the effects of reducing the size of the entries in the qcow2 L2 cache. This was briefly mentioned by Denis in the same thread where we discussed subcluster allocation back in April, but I'll describe here the problem and the proposal in

Re: [Qemu-block] RFC: Reducing the size of entries in the qcow2 L2 cache

2017-09-19 Thread Denis V. Lunev
On 09/19/2017 06:07 PM, Alberto Garcia wrote: > Hi everyone, > > over the past few weeks I have been testing the effects of reducing > the size of the entries in the qcow2 L2 cache. This was briefly > mentioned by Denis in the same thread where we discussed subcluster > allocation back in April,