Re: [PATCH 0/3] vhost-scsi: Fix IO hangs when using windows

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On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 06:34:04PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> The following patches were made over Linus's tree and fix an issue
> where windows guests will send iovecs with offset/lengths that result
> in IOs that are not aligned to 512. The LIO layer will then send them
> to Linux's block layer but it requires 512 byte alignment, so depending
> on the block driver being used we will get IO errors or hung IO.
> 
> The following patches have vhost-scsi detect when windows sends these
> IOs and copy them to a bounce buffer. It then does some cleanup in
> the related code.

Normally with virtio we'd have a feature bit that allows skipping alignment
checks. Teach linux to set it. Stefan, WDYT?

-- 
MST




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