Re: [PATCH] virtio_scsi: Always try to read VPD pages

From	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] virtio_scsi: Always try to read VPD pages
Date	2017-04-20 01:20 +0200
Message-ID	<ty73b-1b1-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Organization	Oracle Corporation

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David,

> Passed through SCSI targets may have transfer limits which come from
> the host SCSI controller something on the host side other than the
> target itself.
>
> To make this work properly, the hypervisor can adjust the target's VPD
> information to advertise these limits.  But for that to work, the
> guest has to look at the VPD pages, which we won't do by default if it
> is an SPC-2 device, even if it does actually support it.

Applied to 4.12/scsi-queue.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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[PATCH] virtio_scsi: Always try to read VPD pages David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> - 2017-04-13 04:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] virtio_scsi: Always try to read VPD pages Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> - 2017-04-13 15:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] virtio_scsi: Always try to read VPD pages Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-04-19 17:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] virtio_scsi: Always try to read VPD pages "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2017-04-20 01:20 +0200

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