Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] vhost-scsi: Fix IO hangs when using windows

michael.christie
2023-07-11T01:37:11Z

On 7/10/23 12:52 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 03:28:57PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
>> The following patches were made over Linus's tree and fix an issue
>> where windows guests will send iovecs with offset/lengths that result
>> in IOs that are not aligned to 512. The LIO layer will then send them
>> to Linux's FS/block layer but it requires 512 byte alignment, so
>> depending on the FS/block driver being used we will get IO errors or
>> hung IO.
>>
>> The following patches have vhost-scsi detect when windows sends these
>> IOs and copy them to a bounce buffer. It then does some cleanup in
>> the related code.
>
>
> Thanks, tagged!
> Mike, you are the main developer on vhost/scsi recently.
> Do you want to be listed in MAINTAINERS too?
> This implies you will be expected to review patches/bug reports
> though.

That sounds good. Thanks.