On 31/10/2013 5:24, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
While T10-DIF clearly defines that over the wire protection guards are interleaved into the data stream (each 512-Byte block followed by 8-byte guard), when in memory, the protection guards may reside in a buffer separated from the data. Depending on the application, it is usually easier to handle the data when it is contiguous. In this case the data buffer will be of size 512xN and the protection buffer will be of size 8xN (where N is the number of blocks in the transaction).
It might be worth mentioning here that in the Linux block layer the approach has been chosen where actual data an protection information are in separate buffers. See also the bi_integrity field in struct bio.
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