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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hello, On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 04:02:06AM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > Is there a limit to the number of descriptors that a virtio-blk driver > can use in a request? In at least Cloud Hypervisor's implementation, I think this is limited to the number of descriptors that you expose to the device in the descriptor ring. In addition, I think the index is 16 bits long. Matias > and I suspect others, the device must allocate an array of iovecs as > long as the number of descriptors. > -- > Sincerely, > Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)