Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio-net: inline header support

Paolo Bonzini [off-list ref] writes:

Il 05/10/2012 07:43, Rusty Russell ha scritto:

quoted

That's good.  But virtio_blk's scsi command is insoluble AFAICT.  As I
said to Anthony, the best rules are "always" and "never", so I'd really
rather not have to grandfather that in.

It is, but we can add a rule that if the (transport) flag
VIRTIO_RING_F_ANY_HEADER_SG is set, the cdb field is always 32 bytes in
virtio-blk.

Could we do that?  It's the cmd length I'm concerned about; is it always
32 in practice for some reason?

Currently qemu does:

    struct sg_io_hdr hdr;
    memset(&hdr, 0, sizeof(struct sg_io_hdr));
    hdr.interface_id = 'S';
    hdr.cmd_len = req->elem.out_sg[1].iov_len;
    hdr.cmdp = req->elem.out_sg[1].iov_base;
    hdr.dxfer_len = 0;

If it's a command which expects more output data, there's no way to
guess where the boundary is between that command and the data.

Cheers,
Rusty.