[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] new scsi-generic abstraction, use SG_IO

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Okay, I started looking into how to handle scsi-generic I/O in the
> new world order.
>
> I think the best is to use the SG_IO ioctl instead of the read/write
> interface as that allows us to support scsi passthrough on disk/cdrom
> devices, too.  See Hannes patch on the kvm list from August for an
> example.
>
> Now that we always do ioctls we don't need another abstraction than
> bdrv_ioctl for the synchronous requests for now, and for asynchronous
> requests I've added a aio_ioctl abstraction keeping it simple.
>
> Long-term we might want to move the ops to a higher-level abstraction
> and let the low-level code fill out the request header, but I'm lazy
> enough to leave that to the people trying to support scsi-passthrough
> on a non-Linux OS.
>
> Tested lightly by issuing various sg_ commands from sg3-utils in a guest
> to a host CDROM device.
>   

I'm not familiar with SG_IO.  Does it allow the device to dma to/from 
userspace?


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