Re: Regression in virtio block driver with 4.13.2

From	Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Regression in virtio block driver with 4.13.2
Date	2017-09-20 02:20 +0200
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On 09/17/2017 04:57 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 04:16:06PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
>> Yes, the issue goes  away when CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI is
>> disabled.
> 
> Ok, so it's probably related to follow ups to the scsi_request split.
> 
> That being said, I would highly recommend turning off
> CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI in fedora.  The feature has caused more trouble
> than it helped with, and should never have been added (saying that as
> the person who added it). It was never supported with virtio 1.0 devices
> and has been disabled in qemu by default for quite a while.
> 

Thanks for the pointer, I went and turned it off on our 4.13 based
kernels.

Laura

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Regression in virtio block driver with 4.13.2 Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2017-09-15 19:00 +0200
  Re: Regression in virtio block driver with 4.13.2 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-09-15 19:40 +0200
    Re: Regression in virtio block driver with 4.13.2 Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2017-09-17 01:20 +0200
      Re: Regression in virtio block driver with 4.13.2 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-09-18 02:00 +0200
        Re: Regression in virtio block driver with 4.13.2 Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2017-09-20 02:20 +0200

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