On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 11:45 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 09:32:09PM +0000, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > From: Nicholas Bellinger <[email protected]>
> > 
> > This patch updates virtscsi_probe() to setup necessary Scsi_Host
> > level protection resources. (currently hardcoded to 1)
> > 
> > It changes virtscsi_add_cmd() to attach outgoing / incoming
> > protection SGLs preceeding the data payload, and is using the
> > new virtio_scsi_cmd_req_pi->d[oi],pi_niv field to signal
> > to signal to vhost/scsi how many prot_sgs to expect.
> > 
> > v3 changes:
> >   - Use VIRTIO_SCSI_F_T10_PI to determine PI or non PI header (Paolo)
> > 
> > v2 changes:
> >   - Make protection buffer come before data buffer (Paolo)
> >   - Enable virtio_scsi_cmd_req_pi usage (Paolo)
> > 
> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>
> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <[email protected]>
> 
> OK but we need to document the new interface in the spec
> (and incidentially, this will be useful to verify the assumptions
> made here and on the host side).
> Could you please submit this proposal to the OASIS Virtio TC
> for inclusion into the next spec draft?
> Ideally as a patch against the tex source, but a prose
> description would do as well.

Most certainly.  Please give me a bit to follow up on this, as the next
couple of days are going to be hellishly busy..

> The TC meets on a bi-weekly basis, we should be able to ratify
> this quickly.
> 

Aside from that, please consider ACK'ing the vhost specific changes so
these can make it into v3.15-rc1 code.

--nab


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