Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_blk: check for hardsector size from host

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On Thursday 29 May 2008 19:08:26 Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Currently virtio_blk assumes a 512 byte hard sector size. This can cause
> trouble / performance issues if the backing has a different block size
> (like a file on an ext3 file system formatted with 4k block size or a
> dasd).
>
> Lets add a feature flag that tells the guest to use a different hard sector
> size than 512 byte.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.  I've queued this for next kernel (the other two will go 
striaght-away).

Cheers,
Rusty.
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