Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v4 17/39] qcow2: Update l2_allocate() to support L2 slices

[Max Reitz]

On 2018-02-05 15:33, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> This patch updates l2_allocate() to support the qcow2 cache returning
> L2 slices instead of full L2 tables.
> 
> The old code simply gets an L2 table from the cache and initializes it
> with zeroes or with the contents of an existing table. With a cache
> that returns slices instead of tables the idea remains the same, but
> the code must now iterate over all the slices that are contained in an
> L2 table.
> 
> Since now we're operating with slices the function can no longer
> return the newly-allocated table, so it's up to the caller to retrieve
> the appropriate L2 slice after calling l2_allocate() (note that with
> this patch the caller is still loading full L2 tables, but we'll deal
> with that in a separate patch).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/qcow2-cluster.c | 56 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>

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