Re: [PATCH 2/5] scsi: advansys: use sg helper to operate sgl

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On Mon, 2019-06-10 at 11:37 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-06-10 at 23:03 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > The current way isn't safe for chained sgl, so use sgl helper to
> > operate sgl.
> 
> The advansys driver doesn't currently use a chained scatterlist.  In
> theory it could; the 
> 
> 	if (shost->sg_tablesize > SG_ALL) {
> 		shost->sg_tablesize = SG_ALL;
> 	}
> 
> At around line 11226 is what prevents it and that could be eliminated
> provided someone actually has the hardware to test.
> 
> However, provided drivers make the correct SG_ALL or less declaration,
> they're entitled to treat scatterlists as fully contiguous, so there's
> no real justification (beyond uniformity) for making it use the chain
> helpers.
> 
> James
> 

I thought the whole issue came about because Ming's earlier changes
to scsi_lib.c made the previously SG_CHUNK_SIZE scatterlist allocated
with the struct request much smaller, (SCSI_INLINE_SG_CNT is 2) so
everything needs to support it?

-Ewan



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