Logical and physical block sizes in QEMU are limited to 32 KiB.
This appears unnecessarily 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>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
---
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 63d48db70c..ead35d7ffd 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 "512 B"
-/* upper limit is the max power of 2 that fits in uint16_t */
-#define MAX_BLOCK_SIZE (32 * KiB)
-#define MAX_BLOCK_SIZE_STR "32 KiB"
+/*
+ * 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
