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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Auto-fragment large transactions at the block l
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Eric Blake |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Auto-fragment large transactions at the block layer |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Jun 2016 17:39:24 -0600 |
We have max_transfer documented in BlockLimits, but while we
honor it during pwrite_zeroes, we were blindly ignoring it
during pwritev and preadv, leading to multiple drivers having
to implement fragmentation themselves. This series moves
fragmentation to the block layer, then fixes the NBD driver to
use it; if you like this but it needs a v2, you can request that
I further do other drivers (I know at least iscsi and qcow2 do
some self-fragmenting and/or error reporting that can be
simplified by deferring fragmentation to the block layer).
Prequisite: Kevin's block branch, plus my work on byte-based
block limits (v2 at the moment):
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg04006.html
Also available as a tag at:
git fetch git://repo.or.cz/qemu/ericb.git nbd-fragment-v1
Eric Blake (5):
block: Fragment reads to max transfer length
block: Fragment writes to max transfer length
raw_bsd: Don't advertise flags not supported by protocol layer
nbd: Rely on block layer to break up large requests
nbd: Drop unused offset parameter
include/block/nbd.h | 1 -
nbd/nbd-internal.h | 4 +--
block/io.c | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
block/nbd-client.c | 78 ++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
block/nbd.c | 12 ++------
block/raw_bsd.c | 6 ++--
nbd/common.c | 3 +-
7 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
--
2.5.5
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Auto-fragment large transactions at the block layer,
Eric Blake <=
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] block: Fragment reads to max transfer length, Eric Blake, 2016/06/20
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] nbd: Drop unused offset parameter, Eric Blake, 2016/06/20
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] block: Fragment writes to max transfer length, Eric Blake, 2016/06/20
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] raw_bsd: Don't advertise flags not supported by protocol layer, Eric Blake, 2016/06/20
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] nbd: Rely on block layer to break up large requests, Eric Blake, 2016/06/20
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/5] iscsi: Rely on block layer to break up large requests, Eric Blake, 2016/06/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Auto-fragment large transactions at the block layer, Eric Blake, 2016/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Auto-fragment large transactions at the block layer, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2016/06/21