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encoded length 24
e9 07 0f 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f 03 01 67 01 01 69
+Cache update strategy
+=====================
+Keeping the hot pages in the cache is effective for decreased cache
+misses. XBZRLE uses a counter as the age of each page. The counter will
+increase after each ram dirty bitmap sync. When a cache conflict is
+detected, XBZRLE will only evict pages in the cache that are older than
+a threshold.
+
Usage
======================
1. Verify the destination QEMU version is able to decode the new format.