Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] qcow2: Make the L2 cache cover the whole image by default

[Leonid Bloch]

On 08/03/2018 10:38 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 29.07.2018 um 23:27 hat Leonid Bloch geschrieben:
> > This series makes the qcow2 L2 cache cover the entire image by default.
> > The importance of this change is in noticeable performance improvement,
> > especially with heavy random I/O. The memory overhead is very small:
> > only 1 MB of cache for every 8 GB of image size. On systems with very
> > limited RAM the maximal cache size can be limited by the existing
> > cache-size and l2-cache-size options.
> >
> > The L2 cache is also resized accordingly, by default, if the image is
> > resized.
>
> Are you going to send a new version that makes the changes we agreed on?

Yes, sure. Was somewhat busy. Will send today or tomorrow.

Thanks for reminding.
Leonid.

> Kevin