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qcow2: Increase the default upper limit on the L2 cache size

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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 <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Leonid Bloch 2018-09-26 19:04:44 +03:00 • committed by Kevin Wolf
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@ -125,12 +125,15 @@ There are a few things that need to be taken into account:
- Both caches must have a size that is a multiple of the cluster size
(or the cache entry size: see "Using smaller cache sizes" below).
- The maximum L2 cache size is 1 MB by default (enough for full coverage
of 8 GB images, with the default cluster size). This value can be
modified using the "l2-cache-size" option. QEMU will not use more memory
than needed to hold all of the image's L2 tables, regardless of this max.
value. The minimal L2 cache size is 2 clusters (or 2 cache entries, see
below).
- The maximum L2 cache size is 32 MB by default on Linux platforms (enough
for full coverage of 256 GB images, with the default cluster size). This
value can be modified using the "l2-cache-size" option. QEMU will not use
more memory than needed to hold all of the image's L2 tables, regardless
of this max. value.
On non-Linux platforms the maximal value is smaller by default (8 MB) and
this difference stems from the fact that on Linux the cache can be cleared
periodically if needed, using the "cache-clean-interval" option (see below).
The minimal L2 cache size is 2 clusters (or 2 cache entries, see below).
- The default (and minimum) refcount cache size is 4 clusters.