Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
>
>> Alan,
>> The SG_GET_RESERVED_SIZE ioctl is also defined in
>> the block layer, see block/scsi_ioctl.c .
>
> Ah, I didn't know that. (Or more likely, I used to know and have since
> forgotten.) Thanks for pointing it out.
>
>> I suspect it is just a kludge to fool cdrecord that it
>> is talking to a sg device. [One of many kludges in the
>> block SG_IO ioctl implementation to that end.]
>> So perhaps the block layer versions of SG_SET_RESERVED_SIZE
>> and SG_GET_RESERVED_SIZE need to be similarly capped.
>
> Yes. In fact one of them already is, but the other should be too.
>
>> Actually I think that I would default SG_GET_RESERVED_SIZE to
>> request_queue->max_sectors * 512 in the block layer
>> implementation (as there is no "reserve buffer" associated
>> with a block device).
>
> Okay.
>
> Come to think of it, the reserved_size value used when a new sg device is
> created should also be capped at max_sectors * 512. Agreed? I can't see
> any reason for ever having a larger buffer -- it would be impossible to
> make use of the extra space.
Alan,
That depends whether or not max_sectors can be changed
(via sysfs) subsequent to a sg device being created.
And I think it can.
# ls -l /sys/block/sdc/queue/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Feb 19 18:29 iosched
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Feb 19 23:41 max_hw_sectors_kb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Feb 19 23:41 max_sectors_kb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Feb 19 23:41 nr_requests
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Feb 19 23:41 read_ahead_kb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Feb 19 23:41 scheduler
# cat max_hw_sectors_kb > max_sectors_kb
... is the real maximum if the LLD that set max_hw_sectors_kb
is to be believed (actually it is often a finger in
the wind).
Doug Gilbert
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