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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: Give always priority to unused entries i


From: Alberto Garcia
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: Give always priority to unused entries in the qcow2 L2 cache
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 14:46:29 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 12:18:07PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:

> > I wanted to measure the actual impact of this, so I modified the
> > current code to implement a quick and dirty LRU algorithm and made
> > some numbers.
> 
> Cool, thanks. I think switching to an LRU algorithm is an option
> that might make sense for the general case, so this is something to
> consider.

I'm anyway sharing the implementation in case you want to give it a
look.

> I was going to suggest a test run for a different scenario, like
> with many interleaved sequential reads, but thinking a bit more
> about how to do it so that the eviction algorithm could make a
> significant change, it occurred to me that it might not be all that
> easy (and therefore possibly not practically relevant either).

Yes, that was exactly my point.

Thanks a lot for your comments and quick review,

Berto

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