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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] include: Auto-generate the sizes lookup


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] include: Auto-generate the sizes lookup table
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:29:47 -0600
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On 1/11/19 1:50 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:

>>> We have 54 of them.  I count six uses:
>>>
>>>      block/qcow2.h:#define QCOW_MAX_REFTABLE_SIZE S_8MiB
>>>      block/qcow2.h:#define QCOW_MAX_L1_SIZE S_32MiB
>>>      block/qcow2.h:#define DEFAULT_L2_CACHE_MAX_SIZE S_32MiB
>>>      block/qcow2.h:#define DEFAULT_L2_CACHE_MAX_SIZE S_8MiB
>>>      block/qcow2.h:#define DEFAULT_CLUSTER_SIZE S_64KiB
>>>      block/vdi.c:#define DEFAULT_CLUSTER_SIZE S_1MiB
>>>
>>> Which if them truly need stringify-able integers?
>>>
>>
>> These two:
>>
>> block/qcow2.h:#define DEFAULT_CLUSTER_SIZE
>> block/vdi.c:#define DEFAULT_CLUSTER_SIZE.
> 
> Compared to the complexity visible in this thread,
> 
>     .def_value_str = "65536", /* must match DEFAULT_CLUSTER_SIZE */
> 
> looks attractively stupid to me then.

In general, .def_value_str = stringify(...) looks odd, compared to my v3
patch that lets us do .def_value_int = DEFAULT_CLUSTER_SIZE; my patch
also has the benefit that if DEFAULT_CLUSTER_SIZE changes value, we
don't have to remember to update the string.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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