Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 6/9] qcow2: Increase the default upper limit on the L2 cache size

[Alberto Garcia]

On Fri 21 Sep 2018 07:23:07 PM CEST, Leonid Bloch wrote:
> The upper limit on the L2 cache size is increased from 1 MB to 32 MB
> on Linux platforms, and to 8 MB on other platforms (this difference is
> caused by the ability to set intervals for cache cleaning on Linux
> platforms only).
>
> This is done in order to allow default full coverage with the L2 cache
> for images of up to 256 GB in size (was 8 GB). Note, that only the
> needed amount to cover the full image is allocated. The value which is
> changed here is just the upper limit on the L2 cache size, beyond which
> it will not grow, even if the size of the image will require it to.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>

Berto