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SubjectRe: Pe: [PATCH v5 1/3] virtio-scsi: first version
On 02/07/2012 02:59 PM, Christian Hoff wrote:
> Instead the format has some disadvantages:
> - It uses up 8 bytes where 3 bytes would be sufficient in order to store
> both the target ID and LUN number information
> - The format limits us to 255 target IDs. I agree that the LUN limit is
> probably more a theoretical and not a practical one, but 255 target IDs
> could become a limitation in the future.

It also provides better upwards-compatibility in case the limitations
are actually hit. If I had used "uint8_t target; uint16_t lun;" an
extension would require a feature bit and a new struct. With 8-bytes,
you can just expand the definition. That pretty much sums it up.

But again, I don't think the limitations are serious. A MegaSAS header
has room for 256 targets too, VMWare has only 15, Hyper-V has 1 (and 2
channels, but I think that's an off-by-one), and you can always have
multiple HBAs on the same guest.

> Nonetheless I think that virtio-scsi is a useful project and addresses
> many of the limitations imposed by virtio-block. The fact that I am still
> persisting has more to do with interest in the project rather than wanting
> to keep the code from going upstream.

No problem. :)

Paolo


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