From: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
To: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 3/4] docs: document how to configure the qcow2 L2/refcount caches
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:19:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5571DA0A.8050200@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <670f06f6e90543526ce4808199ec573459591454.1433521455.git.berto@igalia.com>
On 05.06.2015 18:27, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> QEMU has options to configure the size of the L2 and refcount
> caches for the qcow2 format. However, choosing the right sizes for
> a particular disk image is not a straightforward operation since
> the ratio between the cache size and the allocated disk space is
> not obvious and depends on the size of the cluster and the refcount
> entries.
>
> This document attempts to give an overview of both caches and how to
> configure their sizes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
> Cc: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
> ---
> docs/qcow2-cache.txt | 164 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 164 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 docs/qcow2-cache.txt
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-05 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-05 16:27 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/4] Clean unused entries in the qcow2 L2/refcount cache Alberto Garcia
2015-06-05 16:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 1/4] qcow2: mark the memory as no longer needed after qcow2_cache_empty() Alberto Garcia
2015-06-05 16:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/4] qcow2: add option to clean unused cache entries after some time Alberto Garcia
2015-07-08 12:43 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-06-05 16:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 3/4] docs: document how to configure the qcow2 L2/refcount caches Alberto Garcia
2015-06-05 17:19 ` Max Reitz [this message]
2015-06-05 16:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 4/4] qcow2: reorder fields in Qcow2CachedTable to reduce padding Alberto Garcia
2015-06-24 17:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/4] Clean unused entries in the qcow2 L2/refcount cache Alberto Garcia
2015-06-25 12:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Stefan Hajnoczi
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