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[Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 0/7] dma-helpers, scsi-block: use SG_IO for all I
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Paolo Bonzini |
Subject: |
[Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 0/7] dma-helpers, scsi-block: use SG_IO for all I/O on scsi-block |
Date: |
Mon, 23 May 2016 14:54:04 +0200 |
scsi-block uses the block layer for reads and writes in order to avoid
allocating bounce buffers as big as the transferred data. We know how
to split a large transfer to multiple reads and writes, and thus we can
use scsi-disk.c's existing code to do I/O in multiple chunks (for non-s/g
SCSI hosts) or through the DMA helpers (for s/g SCSI hosts).
Unfortunately, this has the side effect of eating the SCSI status except
in the very few cases where we can convert an errno code back to a SCSI
status. It puts a big wrench in persistent reservations support in the
guest, for example.
Luckily, splitting a large transfer into multiple SBC commands is just as
easy, and this is what the last patch does. It takes the original CDB,
patches in a modified starting sector and sector count, and executes the
SCSI command through blk_aio_ioctl. It is also easy to pass a QEMUIOVector
to SG_IO, so that s/g SCSI hosts keep the performance.
This rebases the patches on top of Eric's changes for byte-based
BlockBackend access and fixes a few bugs I knew about in the RFC.
Patches 1, 5 and 6 are new.
Paolo
Paolo Bonzini (7):
dma-helpers: change interface to byte-based
dma-helpers: change BlockBackend to opaque value in DMAIOFunc
scsi-disk: introduce a common base class
scsi-disk: introduce dma_readv and dma_writev
scsi-disk: add need_fua_emulation to SCSIDiskClass
scsi-disk: introduce scsi_disk_req_check_error
scsi-block: always use SG_IO
dma-helpers.c | 54 +++++--
hw/block/nvme.c | 6 +-
hw/ide/ahci.c | 6 +-
hw/ide/core.c | 20 ++-
hw/ide/internal.h | 6 +-
hw/ide/macio.c | 2 +-
hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c | 409 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
include/sysemu/dma.h | 20 +--
trace-events | 2 +-
9 files changed, 371 insertions(+), 154 deletions(-)
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2.5.5
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