From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org,
Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>,
Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/17] iscsi: Advertise realistic limits to block layer
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 13:19:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160616051913.GH12178@ad.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465939839-30097-7-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
On Tue, 06/14 15:30, Eric Blake wrote:
> The function sector_limits_lun2qemu() returns a value in units of
> the block layer's 512-byte sector, and can be as large as
> 0x40000000, which is much larger than the block layer's inherent
> limit of BDRV_REQUEST_MAX_SECTORS. The block layer already
> handles '0' as a synonym to the inherent limit, and it is nicer
> to return this value than it is to calculate an arbitrary
> maximum, for two reasons: we want to ensure that the block layer
> continues to special-case '0' as 'no limit beyond the inherent
> limits'; and we want to be able to someday expand the block
> layer to allow 64-bit limits, where auditing for uses of
> BDRV_REQUEST_MAX_SECTORS will help us make sure we aren't
> artificially constraining iscsi to old block layer limits.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-16 5:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-14 21:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/17] Byte-based block limits Eric Blake
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/17] block: Tighter assertions on bdrv_aligned_pwritev() Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:05 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-20 12:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/17] block: Document supported flags during bdrv_aligned_preadv() Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:08 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-20 12:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/17] block: Fix harmless off-by-one in bdrv_aligned_preadv() Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:10 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-20 12:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/17] nbd: Allow larger requests Eric Blake
2016-06-15 13:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-16 5:12 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-20 12:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/17] nbd: Advertise realistic limits to block layer Eric Blake
2016-06-15 13:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-22 20:58 ` Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:13 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-20 12:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/17] iscsi: " Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:19 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2016-06-20 12:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/17] block: Give nonzero result to blk_get_max_transfer_length() Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:25 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-16 13:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/17] blkdebug: Set request_alignment during .bdrv_refresh_limits() Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:27 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-21 13:27 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-06-21 22:17 ` Eric Blake
2016-06-22 10:05 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-06-22 17:33 ` Eric Blake
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/17] iscsi: " Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:28 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/17] qcow2: " Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:28 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/17] raw-win32: " Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:30 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 12/17] block: " Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:31 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 13/17] block: Set default request_alignment during bdrv_refresh_limits() Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:32 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 14/17] block: Switch transfer length bounds to byte-based Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:42 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-21 13:50 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-06-21 22:20 ` Eric Blake
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 15/17] block: Switch discard " Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:46 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-16 14:21 ` Eric Blake
2016-06-17 2:28 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-21 14:05 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-06-21 22:21 ` Eric Blake
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 16/17] block: Split bdrv_merge_limits() from bdrv_refresh_limits() Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:50 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-16 14:22 ` Eric Blake
2016-06-21 14:12 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-06-21 22:24 ` Eric Blake
2016-06-14 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 17/17] block: Move request_alignment into BlockLimit Eric Blake
2016-06-16 5:52 ` Fam Zheng
2016-06-21 14:16 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-06-21 22:26 ` Eric Blake
2016-06-22 10:14 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-06-21 14:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/17] Byte-based block limits Kevin Wolf
2016-06-21 22:27 ` Eric Blake
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