qcow2: Increase the default upper limit on the L2 cache size

The upper limit on the L2 cache size is increased from 1 MB to 32 MB
on Linux platforms, and to 8 MB on other platforms (this difference is
caused by the ability to set intervals for cache cleaning on Linux
platforms only).

This is done in order to allow default full coverage with the L2 cache
for images of up to 256 GB in size (was 8 GB). Note, that only the
needed amount to cover the full image is allocated. The value which is
changed here is just the upper limit on the L2 cache size, beyond which
it will not grow, even if the size of the image will require it to.

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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 6eef0f5651..14aee78c6c 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -736,9 +736,9 @@ The maximum total size of the L2 table and refcount block caches in bytes
 
 @item l2-cache-size
 The maximum size of the L2 table cache in bytes
-(default: if cache-size is not specified - 1M; otherwise, as large as possible
-within the cache-size, while permitting the requested or the minimal refcount
-cache size)
+(default: if cache-size is not specified - 32M on Linux platforms, and 8M on
+non-Linux platforms; otherwise, as large as possible within the cache-size,
+while permitting the requested or the minimal refcount cache size)
 
 @item refcount-cache-size
 The maximum size of the refcount block cache in bytes