On Tue, 2021-06-08 at 15:16 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> For block host devices, I/O can happen through either the kernel file
> descriptor I/O system calls (preadv/pwritev, io_submit, io_uring)
> or the SCSI passthrough ioctl SG_IO.
>
> In the latter case, the size of each transfer can be limite
On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 03:16:30PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> For block host devices, I/O can happen through either the kernel file
> descriptor I/O system calls (preadv/pwritev, io_submit, io_uring)
> or the SCSI passthrough ioctl SG_IO.
>
> In the latter case, the size of each transfer can be
For block host devices, I/O can happen through either the kernel file
descriptor I/O system calls (preadv/pwritev, io_submit, io_uring)
or the SCSI passthrough ioctl SG_IO.
In the latter case, the size of each transfer can be limited by the
HBA, while for file descriptor I/O the kernel is able to