linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Change the limits to reflect the values on the host

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Message-ID: <53C39B91.4010000@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:57:53 +0200
From:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>, jasowang@...hat.com,
	apw@...onical.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, ohering@...e.com,
	jbottomley@...allels.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Change the limits to reflect
 the values on the host

On 07/14/2014 10:30 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 08:15:17AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> Limiting max_lun to 255 will make the driver to _not_ respond to LUNs higher
>> than that; ie Well-known LUN won't work here.
>> Also the SCSI stack will be using REPORT LUNS anyway since you're
>> advertising SPC-2 compliance. So your driver runs into issues if Hyper-V
>> would ever return more than 256 LUNs with the REPORT LUN command or if any
>> of the LUNs has an addressing scheme other than
>> '0x00'.
>> I would suggest to raise this to the technical limit (ie the largest LUN
>> which the _protocol_ supports) and let REPORT LUNS deal with the actual
>> LUNs.
>
> I suspect hypverv doesn't support anything more.  For now I'd be
> inclined to just put it in ASAP and if your suggestion works out fix it
> up later, although I'll wait a bit for more review feedback.
>
Okay, that's fine by me.

Cheers,

Hannes
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