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From: | Alberto Garcia |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] RFC: Reducing the size of entries in the qcow2 L2 cache |
Date: | Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:21:07 +0200 |
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On Mon 25 Sep 2017 10:15:49 PM CEST, John Snow <address@hidden> wrote: >> - We need a proper name for these sub-tables that we are loading >> now. I'm actually still struggling with this :-) I can't think of >> any name that is clear enough and not too cumbersome to use (L2 >> subtables? => Confusing. L3 tables? => they're not really that). > > L2 <page | cluster | table> <segment | slice>. > > "slice" might be the nicest as it's in common usage elsewhere in > software engineering and properly intuits that it's a division / > portion of a whole. > > "l2 slice" ? Doesn't sound bad! Thanks for the suggestion. Berto
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