File 0151-qcow2-Options-documentation-fixes.patch of Package qemu.20395
From: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 19:04:39 +0300
Subject: qcow2: Options' documentation fixes
Include-If: %if 0%{?suse_version} == 1315
Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 40fb215d483ce510e211b843352288894eb13285)
[LM: BSC#1139926]
Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <lma@suse.com>
---
docs/qcow2-cache.txt | 21 ++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/qcow2-cache.txt b/docs/qcow2-cache.txt
index b607b0a0f4bdbf4a075ce9800062..d87593dc2fb1f863c8b08dd2fe61 100644
--- a/docs/qcow2-cache.txt
+++ b/docs/qcow2-cache.txt
@@ -79,14 +79,14 @@ Choosing the right cache sizes
In order to choose the cache sizes we need to know how they relate to
the amount of allocated space.
-The amount of virtual disk that can be mapped by the L2 and refcount
+The part of the virtual disk that can be mapped by the L2 and refcount
caches (in bytes) is:
disk_size = l2_cache_size * cluster_size / 8
disk_size = refcount_cache_size * cluster_size * 8 / refcount_bits
With the default values for cluster_size (64KB) and refcount_bits
-(16), that is
+(16), this becomes:
disk_size = l2_cache_size * 8192
disk_size = refcount_cache_size * 32768
@@ -97,12 +97,16 @@ need:
l2_cache_size = disk_size_GB * 131072
refcount_cache_size = disk_size_GB * 32768
-QEMU has a default L2 cache of 1MB (1048576 bytes) and a refcount
-cache of 256KB (262144 bytes), so using the formulas we've just seen
-we have
+For example, 1MB of L2 cache is needed to cover every 8 GB of the virtual
+image size (given that the default cluster size is used):
- 1048576 / 131072 = 8 GB of virtual disk covered by that cache
- 262144 / 32768 = 8 GB
+ 8 GB / 8192 = 1 MB
+
+The refcount cache is 4 times the cluster size by default. With the default
+cluster size of 64 KB, it is 256 KB (262144 bytes). This is sufficient for
+8 GB of image size:
+
+ 262144 * 32768 = 8 GB
How to configure the cache sizes
@@ -130,6 +134,9 @@ There are a few things that need to be taken into account:
memory as possible to the L2 cache before increasing the refcount
cache size.
+ - At most two of "l2-cache-size", "refcount-cache-size", and "cache-size"
+ can be set simultaneously.
+
Unlike L2 tables, refcount blocks are not used during normal I/O but
only during allocations and internal snapshots. In most cases they are
accessed sequentially (even during random guest I/O) so increasing the