Signed-off-by: NLeonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: NAlberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: NKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

We have just reduced the refcount cache size to the minimum unless
the user explicitly requests a larger one, so we have to update the
documentation to reflect this change.
Signed-off-by: NAlberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-id: c5f0bde23558dd9d33b21fffc76ac9953cc19c56.1523968389.git.berto@igalia.com
Reviewed-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

This patch updates docs/qcow2-cache.txt explaining how to use the new
l2-cache-entry-size parameter.

Here's a more detailed technical description of this feature:

   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2017-09/msg00635.html

And here are some performance numbers:

   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2017-12/msg00507.htmlSigned-off-by: NAlberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

With the move of some docs to docs/interop on d59157ea,
a reference path was not updated.
Signed-off-by: NPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: NKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

Make it clear that having Linux is a hard requirement for this
feature.
Signed-off-by: NAlberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: NKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

QEMU has options to configure the size of the L2 and refcount
caches for the qcow2 format. However, choosing the right sizes for
a particular disk image is not a straightforward operation since
the ratio between the cache size and the allocated disk space is
not obvious and depends on the size of the cluster and the refcount
entries.

This document attempts to give an overview of both caches and how to
configure their sizes.
Signed-off-by: NAlberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: NMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 55de928e139b1ba3f3d40fe9c6c88f30b1f36410.1438690126.git.berto@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: NMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>