On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 03:51:29PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 09.07.2015 um 11:56 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben: > > v2: > > * Default to IOV_MAX instead of INT_MAX [Peter Lieven] > > > > This series depends on "[PATCH] block/mirror: limit qiov to IOV_MAX > > elements". > > > > IOV_MAX has been hardcoded in several places since preadv()/pwritev()/etc > > refuse to take more iovecs per call. That's actually an implementation > > detail > > of raw-posix and we shouldn't spread that across the codebase. > > > > This series adds BlockLimits.max_iov (similar to > > BlockLimits.max_transfer_len > > and other fields). Current IOV_MAX users are converted to > > blk_get_max_iov(). > > > > By the way, the IOV_MAX vs BlockLimits.max_iov naming is slightly confusing > > but > > follows the BlockLimits field naming convention. Once IOV_MAX is banished > > no > > one will be bothered by the reverse naming anymore. > > > > Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> > > I was just looking for patches marked as for-2.5 and found this one... > Is there a reason it wasn't applied or did we just forget about it?
This series was forgotten. I have applied it for QEMU 2.6 since it is not a bug fix. Stefan
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