linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/13] IB/iser: set virt_boundary

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Date:   Thu, 6 Jun 2019 16:19:50 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Max Gurtovoy <maxg@...lanox.com>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        megaraidlinux.pdl@...adcom.com, MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com,
        linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        usb-storage@...ts.one-eyed-alien.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] IB/iser: set virt_boundary_mask in the scsi host

On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 09:59:35AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Until we've sorted that out the device paramter needs to be set to
> > the smallest value supported.
> 
> smallest? largest? We've been setting it to the largest value the
> device can handle (ie 2G)

Well, in general we need the smallest value supported by any ULP,
because if any ULP can't support a larger segment size, we must not
allow the IOMMU to merge it to that size.  That being said I can't
really see why any RDMA ULP should limit the size given how the MRs
work.