This is the accompanying qemu patch for the maximum number of total sectors
in an I/O feature.
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Signed-off-by: Avishay Traeger
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This is a revised patch that allows the guest and host to negotiate the
maximum number of total sectors in an I/O. This feature has already been
added by Rusty to the virtio spec.
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Rusty Russell wrote on 12/08/2009 07:48:00 AM:
> Avishay; this would be the total sectors in an I/O, as separate from
SIZE_MAX
> (maximum size of any single scatterlist entry) and SEG_MAX (maximum
number of
> scatterlist entries)?
Correct. In the guest virtblk driver, it changes the call to
blk_
I previously submitted a patch to have the guest virtio-blk driver get the
value for the maximum I/O size from the host bdrv, rather than assume that
there is no limit. Avi requested that I first patch the virtio spec
(http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec/). Below is that patch.
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This is a patch to have the guest virtio-blk driver get the value for the
maximum I/O size from the host bdrv, rather than assume that there is no
limit. Right now we use it for an in-house bdrv driver that needs this
option. The patches are below, against the latest gits, split into kernel
(kvm
