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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2021-09-23 09:04:36 -0400
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2021-10-06 10:25:55 +0200
commitcc071629539dc1f303175a7e2d4ab854c0a8b20f (patch)
tree1c19a3000cdb38693fe05e0f30676dc550bf51a1 /block/io.c
parentd318fc20b2ecb785bfc74bd8ad9e0da9e47d2104 (diff)
block: introduce max_hw_iov for use in scsi-generic
Linux limits the size of iovecs to 1024 (UIO_MAXIOV in the kernel sources, IOV_MAX in POSIX). Because of this, on some host adapters requests with many iovecs are rejected with -EINVAL by the io_submit() or readv()/writev() system calls. In fact, the same limit applies to SG_IO as well. To fix both the EINVAL and the possible performance issues from using fewer iovecs than allowed by Linux (some HBAs have max_segments as low as 128), introduce a separate entry in BlockLimits to hold the max_segments value from sysfs. This new limit is used only for SG_IO and clamped to bs->bl.max_iov anyway, just like max_hw_transfer is clamped to bs->bl.max_transfer. Reported-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com> Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org Fixes: 18473467d5 ("file-posix: try BLKSECTGET on block devices too, do not round to power of 2", 2021-06-25) Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210923130436.1187591-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/block/io.c b/block/io.c
index 18d345a87a..bb0a254def 100644
--- a/block/io.c
+++ b/block/io.c
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ static void bdrv_merge_limits(BlockLimits *dst, const BlockLimits *src)
dst->min_mem_alignment = MAX(dst->min_mem_alignment,
src->min_mem_alignment);
dst->max_iov = MIN_NON_ZERO(dst->max_iov, src->max_iov);
+ dst->max_hw_iov = MIN_NON_ZERO(dst->max_hw_iov, src->max_hw_iov);
}
typedef struct BdrvRefreshLimitsState {