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From: Sagi Grimberg <sagi-NQWnxTmZq1alnMjI0IkVqw@public.gmane.org>
To: Max Gurtovoy <maxg-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: iSER initiator in 4.5 is unhappy..
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 18:16:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <570679B6.10409@grimberg.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <570623B9.8040108-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>


>>
>> We communicate the "max_pages" via sg_tablesize and max_hw_sectors.
>>
>> iSER communicates (or at least supposed to) sg_tablesize=128 and
>> max_sectors=1024 to scsi (which sets the block queues attributes), that
>> should be sufficient for handling all the incoming IO. Unless we didn't
>> account for the first-page offset and the reminder coming at the last
>> segment (which results in an extra page). The patch should fix the
>> problem, however in this particular sg list I don't see the violation
>> (counted 127 pages)...
>
> I counted 129 pages.
> I will run some tests in our labs too.

If you did then that indicates the block layer violates
its obligation to respect max_segments/max_hw_sectors?
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-07 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-04 13:46 iSER initiator in 4.5 is unhappy Christoph Hellwig
     [not found] ` <20160404134656.GA30269-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-04 14:42   ` Max Gurtovoy
     [not found]     ` <57027D48.4000500-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-04 15:10       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-04 17:29   ` sagig
     [not found]     ` <5702A46F.5070109-NQWnxTmZq1alnMjI0IkVqw@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-04 17:38       ` sagig
     [not found]         ` <5702A6AC.9020008-NQWnxTmZq1alnMjI0IkVqw@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-04 22:58           ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]             ` <20160404225831.GA6725-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-05  8:55               ` sagig
     [not found]                 ` <57037D8E.4030506-NQWnxTmZq1alnMjI0IkVqw@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-05  9:43                   ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]                     ` <20160405094339.GA1622-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-06 17:34                       ` sagig
     [not found]                         ` <570548AB.4090802-NQWnxTmZq1alnMjI0IkVqw@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-06 23:16                           ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]                             ` <20160406231658.GB11588-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-07  7:14                               ` Sagi Grimberg
     [not found]                                 ` <570608C9.1070805-NQWnxTmZq1alnMjI0IkVqw@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-07  9:09                                   ` Max Gurtovoy
     [not found]                                     ` <570623B9.8040108-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-07 15:16                                       ` Sagi Grimberg [this message]
     [not found]                                         ` <570679B6.10409-NQWnxTmZq1alnMjI0IkVqw@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-07 15:20                                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-07 22:13                                           ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]                                             ` <20160407221359.GA16686-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-08  1:42                                               ` Bart Van Assche
2016-04-10 13:30                                               ` Max Gurtovoy
     [not found]                                                 ` <570A5563.5060104-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-10 14:52                                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-12 21:33                                               ` Bart Van Assche
2016-04-04 22:46       ` Christoph Hellwig

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