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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Avishay Traeger1 <AVISHAY@il.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio spec: add virtio-blk max sectors feature
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:18:00 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912081618.00714.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B178BCE.7030003@redhat.com>

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:28:38 pm Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/03/2009 10:42 AM, Avishay Traeger1 wrote:
> > I previously submitted a patch to have the guest virtio-blk driver get the
> > value for the maximum I/O size from the host bdrv, rather than assume that
> > there is no limit.  Avi requested that I first patch the virtio spec
> > (http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/).  Below is that patch.
> >
> > Please CC me on replies, as I am not subscribed.
> >
> >    
> 
> Copying Rusty and virtualization@.

Thanks Avi...

Avishay; this would be the total sectors in an I/O, as separate from SIZE_MAX
(maximum size of any single scatterlist entry) and SEG_MAX (maximum number of
scatterlist entries)?

Seems like a reasonable idea; esp if you need it.

Thanks!
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-08  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-03  8:42 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio spec: add virtio-blk max sectors feature Avishay Traeger1
2009-12-03  9:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-12-08  5:48   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-12-08  9:44     ` Avishay Traeger1
2009-12-08  9:50       ` Avi Kivity

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