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

Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-07-10T05:52:31Z

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.

Thanks,
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MST