Re: [Qemu-block] RFC: Reducing the size of entries in the qcow2 L2 cache

[John Snow]

On 09/19/2017 11:07 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> Hi everyone,

>    - We need a proper name for these sub-tables that we are loading
>      now. I'm actually still struggling with this :-) I can't think of
>      any name that is clear enough and not too cumbersome to use (L2
>      subtables? => Confusing. L3 tables? => they're not really that).
> 

L2 <page | cluster | table> <segment | slice>.

"slice" might be the nicest as it's in common usage elsewhere in
software engineering and properly intuits that it's a division / portion
of a whole.

"l2 slice" ?

--js