[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio spec: add virtio-blk max sectors feature

[Avishay Traeger1]

Rusty Russell <address@hidden> 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_queue_max_sectors().

> Seems like a reasonable idea; esp if you need it.

I do.

> Thanks!
> Rusty.

Sure.  Avi - do you want me to resubmit the kvm and qemu patches?

Thanks,
Avishay