linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Enable scatterlist entry lengths

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Message-Id: <161612513549.25210.13206699806758819560.b4-ty@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu, 18 Mar 2021 23:46:39 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     longli@...rosoft.com, kys@...rosoft.com,
        linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, jejb@...ux.ibm.com, wei.liu@...nel.org
Cc:     "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Enable scatterlist entry lengths > 4Kbytes

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:44:54 -0800, Michael Kelley wrote:

> storvsc currently sets .dma_boundary to limit scatterlist entries
> to 4 Kbytes, which is less efficient with huge pages that offer
> large chunks of contiguous physical memory. Improve the algorithm
> for creating the Hyper-V guest physical address PFN array so
> that scatterlist entries with lengths > 4Kbytes are handled.
> As a result, remove the .dma_boundary setting.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 5.13/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: storvsc: Enable scatterlist entry lengths > 4Kbytes
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/3d9c3dcc58e9

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering