iscsi: Advertise realistic limits to block layer
commitf9e95af0a6be281f56ecc8413ea4a3ac3545ce17
authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Thu, 23 Jun 2016 22:37:10 +0000 (23 16:37 -0600)
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Tue, 5 Jul 2016 14:46:25 +0000 (5 16:46 +0200)
treed9bcbcb304a8a3f43e57aecb3051d11579a45d9e
parent202204717a7e73971cccebd38c5d8ac4b0bfcef8
iscsi: Advertise realistic limits to block layer

The function sector_limits_lun2qemu() returns a value in units of
the block layer's 512-byte sector, and can be as large as
0x40000000, which is much larger than the block layer's inherent
limit of BDRV_REQUEST_MAX_SECTORS.  The block layer already
handles '0' as a synonym to the inherent limit, and it is nicer
to return this value than it is to calculate an arbitrary
maximum, for two reasons: we want to ensure that the block layer
continues to special-case '0' as 'no limit beyond the inherent
limits'; and we want to be able to someday expand the block
layer to allow 64-bit limits, where auditing for uses of
BDRV_REQUEST_MAX_SECTORS will help us make sure we aren't
artificially constraining iscsi to old block layer limits.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
block/iscsi.c