block: introduce max_hw_iov for use in scsi-generic

Linux limits the size of iovecs to 1024 (UIO_MAXIOV in the kernel
sources, IOV_MAX in POSIX).  Because of this, on some host adapters
requests with many iovecs are rejected with -EINVAL by the
io_submit() or readv()/writev() system calls.

In fact, the same limit applies to SG_IO as well.  To fix both the
EINVAL and the possible performance issues from using fewer iovecs
than allowed by Linux (some HBAs have max_segments as low as 128),
introduce a separate entry in BlockLimits to hold the max_segments
value from sysfs.  This new limit is used only for SG_IO and clamped
to bs->bl.max_iov anyway, just like max_hw_transfer is clamped to
bs->bl.max_transfer.

Reported-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Fixes: 18473467d5 ("file-posix: try BLKSECTGET on block devices too, do not round to power of 2", 2021-06-25)
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210923130436.1187591-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/io.c b/block/io.c
index 18d345a..bb0a254 100644
--- a/block/io.c
+++ b/block/io.c
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ static void bdrv_merge_limits(BlockLimits *dst, const BlockLimits *src)
     dst->min_mem_alignment = MAX(dst->min_mem_alignment,
                                  src->min_mem_alignment);
     dst->max_iov = MIN_NON_ZERO(dst->max_iov, src->max_iov);
+    dst->max_hw_iov = MIN_NON_ZERO(dst->max_hw_iov, src->max_hw_iov);
 }
 
 typedef struct BdrvRefreshLimitsState {