lishan <lisha...@huawei.com> writes:
> AIO read/write. The size of iocb->aio_nbytes in the kernel cannot exceed
> UIO_MAXIOV = 1024.
> max_segments read from the block device layer may be greater than UIO_MAXIOV,
> this causes the ioq_submit interface to return a -22(-EINVAL) error result.
> ---
> block/file-posix.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/file-posix.c b/block/file-posix.c
> index d81e15efa4..137e27e47b 100644
> --- a/block/file-posix.c
> +++ b/block/file-posix.c
> @@ -1273,7 +1273,8 @@ static void raw_refresh_limits(BlockDriverState *bs,
> Error **errp)
>
> ret = hdev_get_max_segments(s->fd, &st);
> if (ret > 0) {
> - bs->bl.max_iov = ret;
> + /* The maximum segment size allowed by the kernel is UIO_MAXIOV
> = 1024. */
> + bs->bl.max_iov = MIN(ret, IOV_MAX);
> }
> }
> }
I didn't check your assertion we always need to cap at IOV_MAX.
Assuming you're right, why not do it in hdev_get_max_segments()?
