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Now that the code is ready to handle L2 slices we can finally add an option to allow configuring their size. An L2 slice is the portion of an L2 table that is read by the qcow2 cache. Until now the cache was always reading full L2 tables, and since the L2 table size is equal to the cluster size this was not very efficient with large clusters. Here's a more detailed explanation of why it makes sense to have smaller cache entries in order to load L2 data: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2017-09/msg00635.html This patch introduces a new command-line option to the qcow2 driver named l2-cache-entry-size (cf. l2-cache-size). The cache entry size has the same restrictions as the cluster size: it must be a power of two and it has the same range of allowed values, with the additional requirement that it must not be larger than the cluster size. The L2 cache entry size (L2 slice size) remains equal to the cluster size for now by default, so this feature must be explicitly enabled. Although my tests show that 4KB slices consistently improve performance and give the best results, let's wait and make more tests with different cluster sizes before deciding on an optimal default. Now that the cache entry size is not necessarily equal to the cluster size we need to reflect that in the MIN_L2_CACHE_SIZE documentation. That minimum value is a requirement of the COW algorithm: we need to read two L2 slices (and not two L2 tables) in order to do COW, see l2_allocate() for the actual code. Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Message-id: c73e5611ff4a9ec5d20de68a6c289553a13d2354.1517840877.git.berto@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> |
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