On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 11/16/09 19:53, Paul Brook wrote:
> > Capping the amount of memory required for a transfer *is* implemented, in
> > both LSI and virtio-blk.  The exception being SCSI passthrough where the
> > kernel API makes it impossible.
> 
> Well.  Figured while doing more testing:  The allowed request size is
> limited by the kernel, so scsi-generic requests larger than (currently)
> 128k fail.
> 
> Now, how to handle *that*?  Is there some way to signal to the guest
> that the request was to big?

Same as real hardware.  Probably also want to populate the Block Limits VPD 
page appropriately

Paul


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