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[v8,8/8] block: lift blocksize property limit to 2 MiB

Message ID 20200528225516.1676602-9-rvkagan@yandex-team.ru
State New
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Series block: enhance handling of size-related BlockConf properties | expand

Commit Message

Roman Kagan May 28, 2020, 10:55 p.m. UTC 
Logical and physical block sizes in QEMU are limited to 32 KiB.

This appears unnecessarily tight, and we've seen bigger block sizes
handy at times.

Lift the limitation up to 2 MiB which appears to be good enough for
everybody, and matches the qcow2 cluster size limit.

Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rvkagan@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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 hw/core/qdev-properties.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/hw/core/qdev-properties.c b/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
index 63d48db70c..ead35d7ffd 100644
--- a/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
+++ b/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
@@ -784,9 +784,12 @@  const PropertyInfo qdev_prop_size32 = {
 /* lower limit is sector size */
 #define MIN_BLOCK_SIZE          512
 #define MIN_BLOCK_SIZE_STR      "512 B"
-/* upper limit is the max power of 2 that fits in uint16_t */
-#define MAX_BLOCK_SIZE          (32 * KiB)
-#define MAX_BLOCK_SIZE_STR      "32 KiB"
+/*
+ * upper limit is arbitrary, 2 MiB looks sufficient for all sensible uses, and
+ * matches qcow2 cluster size limit
+ */
+#define MAX_BLOCK_SIZE          (2 * MiB)
+#define MAX_BLOCK_SIZE_STR      "2 MiB"
 
 static void set_blocksize(Object *obj, Visitor *v, const char *name,
                           void *opaque, Error **errp)