From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxarm@huawei.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
Xiang Chen <chenxiang66@hisilicon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] scsi: hisi_sas: Add support for DIF feature for v3 hw
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 22:31:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq11s6flde1.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afb32599-9b81-9d56-3ae7-2797992353a1@huawei.com> (John Garry's message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:51:36 +0000")
John,
> We have an issue with using scsi_transfer_length().
>
> As I understand, for our controller we need to set the host structure
> data transfer size to the size of data to write to the disk for WRITE
> type command, and at size of info received to host memory for READ
> type command. As such, for READ STRIP, we only want the SCSI buf len,
> and not the scsi buf len and PI (this is what scsi_transfer_length()
> provides).
Interesting asymmetry.
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-18 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-06 13:34 [PATCH v4 0/5] hisi_sas: DIF support John Garry
2018-12-06 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] scsi: hisi_sas: Fix warnings detected by sparse John Garry
2018-12-06 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] scsi: hisi_sas: Relocate some code to reduce complexity John Garry
2018-12-06 14:17 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-12-06 15:37 ` John Garry
2018-12-06 16:20 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-12-07 10:07 ` John Garry
2018-12-07 10:53 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-12-06 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] scsi: hisi_sas: Make sg_tablesize consistent value John Garry
2018-12-06 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] scsi: hisi_sas: Add support for DIF feature for v3 hw John Garry
2018-12-13 2:20 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-12-13 13:35 ` John Garry
2018-12-17 14:51 ` John Garry
2018-12-18 3:31 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2018-12-06 13:34 ` [RFC PATCH v4 5/5] scsi: hisi_sas: Add support for DIX feature for v3 hw as experimental John Garry
2018-12-13 2:23 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] hisi_sas: DIF support Martin K. Petersen
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