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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] dma-helpers, scsi-block: use SG_IO for all I/O on scsi-block
@ 2016-05-23 12:54 Paolo Bonzini
  2016-05-23 12:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] dma-helpers: change interface to byte-based Paolo Bonzini
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  0 siblings, 9 replies; 29+ messages in thread
From: Paolo Bonzini @ 2016-05-23 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel; +Cc: qemu-block

scsi-block uses the block layer for reads and writes in order to avoid
allocating bounce buffers as big as the transferred data.  We know how
to split a large transfer to multiple reads and writes, and thus we can
use scsi-disk.c's existing code to do I/O in multiple chunks (for non-s/g
SCSI hosts) or through the DMA helpers (for s/g SCSI hosts).

Unfortunately, this has the side effect of eating the SCSI status except
in the very few cases where we can convert an errno code back to a SCSI
status.  It puts a big wrench in persistent reservations support in the
guest, for example.

Luckily, splitting a large transfer into multiple SBC commands is just as
easy, and this is what the last patch does.  It takes the original CDB,
patches in a modified starting sector and sector count, and executes the
SCSI command through blk_aio_ioctl.  It is also easy to pass a QEMUIOVector
to SG_IO, so that s/g SCSI hosts keep the performance.

This rebases the patches on top of Eric's changes for byte-based
BlockBackend access and fixes a few bugs I knew about in the RFC.

Patches 1, 5 and 6 are new.

Paolo

Paolo Bonzini (7):
  dma-helpers: change interface to byte-based
  dma-helpers: change BlockBackend to opaque value in DMAIOFunc
  scsi-disk: introduce a common base class
  scsi-disk: introduce dma_readv and dma_writev
  scsi-disk: add need_fua_emulation to SCSIDiskClass
  scsi-disk: introduce scsi_disk_req_check_error
  scsi-block: always use SG_IO

 dma-helpers.c        |  54 +++++--
 hw/block/nvme.c      |   6 +-
 hw/ide/ahci.c        |   6 +-
 hw/ide/core.c        |  20 ++-
 hw/ide/internal.h    |   6 +-
 hw/ide/macio.c       |   2 +-
 hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c  | 409 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 include/sysemu/dma.h |  20 +--
 trace-events         |   2 +-
 9 files changed, 371 insertions(+), 154 deletions(-)

-- 
2.5.5

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2016-05-23 12:54 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] dma-helpers, scsi-block: use SG_IO for all I/O on scsi-block Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-23 12:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] dma-helpers: change interface to byte-based Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-23 15:06   ` Eric Blake
2016-05-23 12:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] dma-helpers: change BlockBackend to opaque value in DMAIOFunc Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-23 15:43   ` Eric Blake
2016-05-24  2:47   ` Fam Zheng
2016-05-24  7:05     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-23 12:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] scsi-disk: introduce a common base class Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-23 15:53   ` Eric Blake
2016-05-23 12:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] scsi-disk: introduce dma_readv and dma_writev Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-23 16:09   ` Eric Blake
2016-06-01 19:07   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2016-06-03  2:56     ` xiaoqiang zhao
2016-06-03  5:22       ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2016-06-03  6:07         ` xiaoqiang zhao
2016-05-23 12:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] scsi-disk: add need_fua_emulation to SCSIDiskClass Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-23 16:34   ` Eric Blake
2016-05-24  3:04   ` Fam Zheng
2016-05-24  7:02     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-23 12:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] scsi-disk: introduce scsi_disk_req_check_error Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-23 19:16   ` Eric Blake
2016-05-23 12:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] scsi-block: always use SG_IO Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-23 19:49   ` Eric Blake
2016-05-23 19:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] dma-helpers, scsi-block: use SG_IO for all I/O on scsi-block Mark Cave-Ayland
2016-05-24 22:59   ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2016-05-25  8:45     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-25  9:13       ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2016-05-25 10:11         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-25 16:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Kevin Wolf

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