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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, famz@redhat.com, jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_scsi: Always try to read VPD pages
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:39:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170413133909.GC13387@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170413021300.25023-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

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On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:13:00PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> @@ -705,6 +706,28 @@ static int virtscsi_device_reset(struct scsi_cmnd *sc)
>  	return virtscsi_tmf(vscsi, cmd);
>  }
>  
> +static int virtscsi_device_alloc(struct scsi_device *sdevice)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * Passed through SCSI targets (e.g. with qemu's 'scsi-block')
> +	 * may have transfer limits which come from the host SCSI
> +	 * controller something on the host side other than the target

s/controller something/controller or something/ ?

> +	 * itself.
> +	 *
> +	 * To make this work properly, the hypervisor can adjust the
> +	 * target's VPD information to advertise these limits.  But
> +	 * for that to work, the guest has to look at the VPD pages,
> +	 * which we won't do by default if it is an SPC-2 device, even
> +	 * if it does actually support it.
> +	 *
> +	 * So, set the blist to always try to read the VPD pages.
> +	 */
> +	sdevice->sdev_bflags = BLIST_TRY_VPD_PAGES;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

Looks good to me.  Not a SCSI expert but I checked
scsi_device_supports_vpd() callers and this seems sane.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-13 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-13  2:13 [PATCH] virtio_scsi: Always try to read VPD pages David Gibson
2017-04-13 13:39 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2017-04-19 14:57   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-04-19 23:12 ` Martin K. Petersen

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