From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwZsz-0000JJ-LX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:21:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwZsw-00076c-HC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:21:49 -0400 From: Alberto Garcia In-Reply-To: References: <87tvzyu3p4.fsf@igalia.com> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:21:07 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] RFC: Reducing the size of entries in the qcow2 L2 cache List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: John Snow , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Kevin Wolf , "Denis V. Lunev" , qemu-block@nongnu.org, Max Reitz 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 >> subtables? => Confusing. L3 tables? => they're not really that). > > L2 . > > "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" ? Doesn't sound bad! Thanks for the suggestion. Berto