Re: [PATCH 13/15] target: Enforce 1 page max for control cdb buffer sizes

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:29:35PM -0700, Andy Grover wrote:
> Due to all cdbs' data buffers being referenced by scatterlists, buffers
> of more than a page are not contiguous. Instead of handling this in all
> control command handlers, we may be able to get away with just limiting
> control cdb data buffers to one page. The only control CDBs we handle that
> have potentially large data buffers are REPORT LUNS and UNMAP, so if we
> didn't want to live with this limitation, they would need to be modified
> to walk the pages in the data buffer's sgl.

I think this should be moved earlier in the series, that is before
making all control CDBs use SG lists.

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