Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Auto-fragment large transactions at the block layer

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

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Am 06.07.2016 um 04:04 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> On 06/21/2016 11:54 PM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > On Mon, 06/20 17:39, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> We have max_transfer documented in BlockLimits, but while we
> >> honor it during pwrite_zeroes, we were blindly ignoring it
> >> during pwritev and preadv, leading to multiple drivers having
> >> to implement fragmentation themselves.  This series moves
> >> fragmentation to the block layer, then fixes the NBD driver to
> >> use it; if you like this but it needs a v2, you can request that
> >> I further do other drivers (I know at least iscsi and qcow2 do
> >> some self-fragmenting and/or error reporting that can be
> >> simplified by deferring fragmentation to the block layer).
> >>
> >> Prequisite: Kevin's block branch, plus my work on byte-based
> >> block limits (v2 at the moment):
> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg04006.html
> >>
> >> Also available as a tag at:
> >> git fetch git://repo.or.cz/qemu/ericb.git nbd-fragment-v1
> > 
> > Patches 1-6:
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
> 
> ping - series still applies to latest master without tweaks

Apart from the build fix and the minor comments I made, this looks good
to me.

Kevin

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