From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55440) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwZnL-0006rT-9D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:16:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwZnK-0004jd-ES for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:15:59 -0400 References: <87tvzyu3p4.fsf@igalia.com> From: John Snow Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:15:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87tvzyu3p4.fsf@igalia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Alberto Garcia , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Kevin Wolf , "Denis V. Lunev" , qemu-block@nongnu.org, Max Reitz 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 . "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