On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 03:28:57PM -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 FS/block layer but it requires 512 byte alignment, so > depending on the FS/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. Hang on, virtio-scsi is a SCSI HBA and READs/WRITEs submitted must follow the usual constraints on SCSI block limits. Would Windows send mis-aligned I/O to a non-virtio-scsi SCSI HBA? Are you sure this is not a bug in the Windows guest driver where block limits are being misconfigured? Stefan
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