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From: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] dev-mtp: retry write for incomplete transfers
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 14:15:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jpgtvo69h71.fsf@linux.bootlegged.copy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180807132847.gavgozyrmtmyol7u@sirius.home.kraxel.org> (Gerd Hoffmann's message of "Tue, 7 Aug 2018 15:28:47 +0200")

Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 05:40:18PM -0400, Bandan Das wrote:
>> For large buffers, write may not copy the full buffer. For example,
>> on Linux, write imposes a limit of 0x7ffff000. Note that this does
>> not fix >4G transfers but ~>2G files will transfer successfully.
>
> Hmm, I guess it would be a good idea to write the file in smaller
> pieces, so we don't need a 2G host buffer to let the guest write
> a 2G file ...
>
> (as incremental improvement on top of this series).
>

Sounds good, I will add this to my todo list.

> cheers,
>   Gerd

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-07 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-20 21:40 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] usb-mtp write fixes Bandan Das
2018-07-20 21:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] dev-mtp: add support for canceling transaction Bandan Das
2018-07-20 21:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] dev-mtp: fix buffer allocation for writing file contents Bandan Das
2018-07-20 21:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] dev-mtp: retry write for incomplete transfers Bandan Das
2018-08-07 13:28   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-08-07 18:15     ` Bandan Das [this message]
2018-10-19  9:48   ` Thomas Huth
2018-07-20 21:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] dev-mtp: Add support for > 4GB file transfers Bandan Das
2018-07-20 21:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] dev-mtp: rename x-root to rootdir Bandan Das

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