Re: [PATCH 5/5] virtio-blk: Consider virtio_max_dma_size() for maximum segment size

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:14:33PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 09:05:26AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:51:51AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 09:42:21AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > Yes.  But more importantly it would fix the limit for all other block
> > > > drivers that set large segment sizes when running over swiotlb.
> > > 
> > > True, so it would be something like the diff below? I havn't worked on
> > > the block layer, so I don't know if that needs additional checks for
> > > ->dev or anything.
> > 
> > Looks sensible.  Maybe for now we'll just do the virtio-blk case
> > that triggered it, and we'll do something like this patch for the
> > next merge window.  We'll also need to apply the same magic to the
> > DMA boundary.
> 
> So do I get an ack for this patch then?

I'll wait for a resend of the series to review the whole thing.



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