From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50583) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0uFt-0004vn-7x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:14:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0uFs-0000AD-E4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:14:01 -0400 Message-ID: <5571CABD.9050501@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 18:13:49 +0200 From: Max Reitz MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5571C5BD.2080804@redhat.com> <5571C791.2060605@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] docs: document how to configure the qcow2 L2/refcount caches List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alberto Garcia , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Kevin Wolf , qemu-block@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi On 05.06.2015 18:05, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Fri 05 Jun 2015 06:00:17 PM CEST, Max Reitz wrote: > >>>> I'd like a definition of what "unused" means (I know because of this >>>> series, but I wouldn't know just from this document). >>> It means that it hasn't been accessed in that interval (because it >>> was not needed). Are you thinking of any other possible >>> interpretation? >> Well... To me, intuitively, "unused" entries in a cache are just empty >> entries. Just replacing one occurrence of "unused" by "not accessed >> during the past interval" or something like that would resolve the >> riddle for me. :-) > Ok, I see what you mean... I used the same wording in the > block-core.json description and in the .help field of the > cache-clean-interval option. > > Do you want me to change those as well or is it enough if I clarify it > in this document? I think it should be fine just doing it here, because if someone is confused by the QMP documentation, they can fall back to this document. Max