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

[Alberto Garcia]

On Mon 25 Sep 2017 10:15:49 PM CEST, John Snow <address@hidden> wrote:

>>    - 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" ?

Doesn't sound bad! Thanks for the suggestion.

Berto