Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 0/4] Introduction of l2-cache-full option for qcow2 images

2018-07-24 Thread Leonid Bloch
Thanks for the review and for the comments, Eric! One quick remark: I do usually leave blank lines around inline replies, but this time Thunderbird made it look as if there are blank lines when I was writing, when apparently there were not. :] Leonid. O

Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 0/4] Introduction of l2-cache-full option for qcow2 images

2018-07-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/24/2018 05:20 PM, Leonid Bloch wrote: meta-comment: a hint for more effective emails below - Differences from v2: 1) A separate patch for the grammar fix for 3.0 2) A separate patch for existing documentation fixes for 3.0 3) Separated back the iotests patch, beca

Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 0/4] Introduction of l2-cache-full option for qcow2 images

2018-07-24 Thread Leonid Bloch
On 07/25/2018 01:17 AM, Leonid Bloch wrote: This series introduces an option to calculate and allocate automatically enough qcow2 L2 cache to cover the entire image. Using cache that covers the entire image can benefit performance, while having only a small memory overhead (ju

[Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 0/4] Introduction of l2-cache-full option for qcow2 images

2018-07-24 Thread Leonid Bloch
This series introduces an option to calculate and allocate automatically enough qcow2 L2 cache to cover the entire image. Using cache that covers the entire image can benefit performance, while having only a small memory overhead (just 1 MB for every 8 GB of virtual image size with the default clus