From: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
To: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] RFC: Reducing the size of entries in the qcow2 L2 cache
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:15:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4f684b2-aef1-53aa-2e5d-dfddb39aedca@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tvzyu3p4.fsf@igalia.com>
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? => Confusing. L3 tables? => they're not really that).
>
L2 <page | cluster | table> <segment | slice>.
"slice" might be the nicest as it's in common usage elsewhere in
software engineering and properly intuits that it's a division / portion
of a whole.
"l2 slice" ?
--js
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-25 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-19 15:07 [Qemu-devel] RFC: Reducing the size of entries in the qcow2 L2 cache Alberto Garcia
2017-09-19 15:18 ` Denis V. Lunev
2017-09-20 7:06 ` Kevin Wolf
2017-09-20 13:10 ` Alberto Garcia
2017-09-25 20:15 ` John Snow [this message]
2017-09-25 20:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Alberto Garcia
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