Re: [Qemu-devel] [sneak preview] major scsi overhaul

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

   Hi,

>> Answering large requests with "Illegal request, Invalid field in CDB"
>> doesn't makes linux try smaller requests, instead it reports I/O errors
>> to the syslog.
>>
>> Hmm.
>>
> Can't we just put residuals to good use here?
> Ie finish up the request up to the size we can handle, and return the
> original request with the transfer size set correctly.

I'll try.

> Should be straightforward to implement, one would assume.

The infrastructure and the HBAs have to handle that already.  It 
frequently happens with MODE SENSE for example (guest passing a 256 byte 
buffer and we have less data to fill in).  So it should be easy.

> And we could probably encapsulate it entirely within the bdrv
> as don't actually need to expose those limits when the block
> driver layer is handling it correctly.

Hmm, I don't think so.  SG_IO just returns EINVAL.

cheers,
   Gerd