Logical and physical block sizes in QEMU are limited to 32 KiB.
This appears unnecessary tight, and we've seen bigger block sizes handy
at times.
Lift the limitation up to 2 MiB which appears to be good enough for
everybody, and matches the qcow2 cluster size limit.
Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rvka...@yandex-team.ru>
---
v4 -> v5:
- split out into separate patch [Philippe]
- as this patch has changed significantly lose Eric's r-b
hw/core/qdev-properties.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hw/core/qdev-properties.c b/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
index e7ccd4d276..ecd84262a9 100644
--- a/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
+++ b/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
@@ -784,9 +784,12 @@ const PropertyInfo qdev_prop_size32 = {
/* lower limit is sector size */
#define MIN_BLOCK_SIZE 512
#define MIN_BLOCK_SIZE_STR stringify(MIN_BLOCK_SIZE)
-/* upper limit is the max power of 2 that fits in uint16_t */
-#define MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 32768
-#define MAX_BLOCK_SIZE_STR stringify(MAX_BLOCK_SIZE)
+/*
+ * upper limit is arbitrary, 2 MiB looks sufficient for all sensible uses, and
+ * matches qcow2 cluster size limit
+ */
+#define MAX_BLOCK_SIZE (2 * MiB)
+#define MAX_BLOCK_SIZE_STR "2 MiB"
static void set_blocksize(Object *obj, Visitor *v, const char *name,
void *opaque, Error **errp)
--
2.26.2
