Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] nvme: Fix get/set number of queues feature, again

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 04:06:49PM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote:
> The number of queues that should be return by the admin command should:
> 
>   1) Only mention the number of non-admin queues.
>   2) It is zero-based, meaning that '0 == one non-admin queue',
>      '1 == two non-admin queues', and so forth.
> 
> Because our `num_queues` means the number of queues _plus_ the admin
> queue, then the right calculation for the number returned from the admin
> command is `num_queues - 2`, combining the two requirements mentioned.
> 
> The issue was discovered by reducing num_queues from 64 to 8 and running
> a Linux VM with an SMP parameter larger than that (e.g. 22). It tries to
> utilize all queues, and therefore fails with an invalid queue number
> when trying to queue I/Os on the last queue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <address@hidden>
> CC: Alex Friedman <address@hidden>
> CC: Keith Busch <address@hidden>
> CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/block/nvme.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Sorry for the delay.  Please send future nvme.c patches through Kevin
Wolf:

$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f hw/block/nvme.c
Keith Busch <address@hidden> (supporter:nvme)
Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> (supporter:Block layer core)
Max Reitz <address@hidden> (supporter:Block layer core)
address@hidden (open list:nvme)
address@hidden (open list:All patches CC here)

This patch will be in QEMU 2.11.

Thanks, applied to my block-next tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block-next

Stefan