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

2009-12-08 Thread Avishay Traeger1
Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au 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

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

2009-12-08 Thread Avi Kivity
On 12/08/2009 11:44 AM, Avishay Traeger1 wrote: Thanks! Rusty. Sure. Avi - do you want me to resubmit the kvm and qemu patches? You mean the virtio and qemu patches. That's up to their maintainers (Rusty and Anthony). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to

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

2009-12-07 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:28:38 pm Avi Kivity wrote: On 12/03/2009 10:42 AM, Avishay Traeger1 wrote: 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

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

2009-12-03 Thread Avishay Traeger1
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. Please CC me

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

2009-12-03 Thread Avi Kivity
On 12/03/2009 10:42 AM, Avishay Traeger1 wrote: 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