linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/6] vhost/scsi: Add T10 PI SGL passthrough support

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Message-ID: <yq1y50yhdp1.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:20:42 -0500
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
Cc:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...erainc.com>,
	target-devel <target-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kvm-devel <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagig@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] vhost/scsi: Add T10 PI SGL passthrough support

>>>>> "nab" == Nicholas A Bellinger <nab@...ux-iscsi.org> writes:

nab> Mmm, at least for PI I don't think a residual field is necessary.

nab> Any time the metadata is not fully read on outgoing WRITEs, or
nab> written on incoming READs the next hop performing a VERIFY
nab> operation will end up failing with a GUARD or REFERENCE TAG
nab> failure.

nab> MKP..?

Yeah, that should be OK.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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