Re: [PATCH-v2 10/17] target: Add protection SGLs to target_submit_cmd_map_sgls

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On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 14:12 +0200, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> On 1/19/2014 4:44 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch adds support to target_submit_cmd_map_sgls() for
> > accepting 'sgl_prot' + 'sgl_prot_count' parameters for
> > DIF protection information.
> >
> > Note the passed parameters are stored at se_cmd->t_prot_sg
> > and se_cmd->t_prot_nents respectively.
> >
> > Also, update tcm_loop and vhost-scsi fabrics usage of
> > target_submit_cmd_map_sgls() to take into account the
> > new parameters.
> 
> I didn't see that you added protection allocation to transports that 
> does not use
> target_submit_cmd_map_sgls() - which happens to be iSCSI/iSER/SRP :(
> 
> Don't you think that prot SG allocation should be added also to 
> target_alloc_sgl()? by then
> se_cmd should contain the protection attributes and this routine can 
> know if it needs to
> allocate prot_sg as well. This is how I used it...

Yes, this specific bit was left out for the moment as no code in the
patch for v3.14 actually uses it..

I'm planning to add it to for-next -> v3.15 code as soon as the merge
window closes.

--nab

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