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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qcow2: add option to clean unused cache ent


From: Alberto Garcia
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qcow2: add option to clean unused cache entries after some time
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 17:19:22 +0200
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On Thu 28 May 2015 05:14:12 PM CEST, Max Reitz wrote:
>>>>          'compat': 'str',
>>>>          '*lazy-refcounts': 'bool',
>>>>          '*corrupt': 'bool',
>>>> -      'refcount-bits': 'int'
>>>> +      'refcount-bits': 'int',
>>>> +      'cache-clean-interval': 'int'
>>>>      } }
>>> I'm not too happy about making this part of ImageInfoSpecificQCow2.
>>> Two reasons for this: First, it's eventually part of ImageInfo,
>>> which is defined as "Information about a QEMU image file", but this
>>> option cannot be set in the image file itself but is only a run-time
>>> option.
>>>
>> Can we mark the parameter optional, and only provide it when it is
>> non-zero?  That way, qemu-img (which cannot set an interval) will not
>> report it, and the only time it will appear is if it was set as part
>> of opening the block device under qemu.
>
> That sounds good.

But what do we do with the other parameters (refcount-cache-size,
l2-cache-size)? We cannot have the same solution there because they
don't belong to the image file either, and they're never going go be
zero.

Berto



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