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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/9] qcow2: make refcount size calculation co


From: Alberto Garcia
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/9] qcow2: make refcount size calculation conservative
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:05:42 +0200
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On Wed 05 Apr 2017 05:11:43 PM CEST, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> The refcount metadata size calculation is inaccurate and can produce
> numbers that are too small.  This is bad because we should calculate a
> conservative number - one that is guaranteed to be large enough.
>
> This patch switches the approach to a fixed point calculation because
> the existing equation is hard to solve when inaccuracies are taken care
> of.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>

Berto



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