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

[Eric Blake]

On 07/24/2018 07:17 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 (just 1 MB for every 8 GB
> of virtual image size with the default cluster size).

Is this still needed after Berto's work on commit 603790e and related, 
that maximizes the l2 cache by minimizing the refcount cache?

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