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SubjectRe: [PATCH] virtio-scsi: Change sense buffer size to 252
On Thu, 03/06 12:55, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 06/03/2014 12:22, Hannes Reinecke ha scritto:
> >On 03/06/2014 11:09 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >>Il 06/03/2014 09:47, Fam Zheng ha scritto:
> >>>According to SPC-4, section 4.5.2.1, 252 is the limit of sense
> >>>data. So
> >>>increase the value.
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
> >>>---
> >>> include/linux/virtio_scsi.h | 2 +-
> >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>
> >>>diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_scsi.h
> >>>b/include/linux/virtio_scsi.h
> >>>index 4195b97..a437f7f 100644
> >>>--- a/include/linux/virtio_scsi.h
> >>>+++ b/include/linux/virtio_scsi.h
> >>>@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
> >>> #define _LINUX_VIRTIO_SCSI_H
> >>>
> >>> #define VIRTIO_SCSI_CDB_SIZE 32
> >>>-#define VIRTIO_SCSI_SENSE_SIZE 96
> >>>+#define VIRTIO_SCSI_SENSE_SIZE 252
> >>>
> >>> /* SCSI command request, followed by data-out */
> >>> struct virtio_scsi_cmd_req {
> >>>
> >>
> >>Hi Fam, how did you test this?
> >
> >Is there a specific reason _not_ to use the linux default?
> >The SCSI stack typically limits the sense code to
> >SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, so using other values have a
> >limited sense.
> >Literally :-)

OK. So, do we need to lift the limit on other parts of SCSI stack as well?

>
> Indeed I don't think this patch makes a difference. Though I asked not from
> the SCSI stack perspective, but because right now both virtio-scsi targets
> (QEMU and vhost-scsi) are also truncating at 96.
>

Oh, I missed that, I'll do a more thorough review and testing. Thank you for
pointing out.

Thanks,
Fam


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