From patchwork Mon Oct 24 01:02:39 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Douglas Gilbert X-Patchwork-Id: 13016476 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCC5C433FE for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 01:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229905AbiJXBMB (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Oct 2022 21:12:01 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39444 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229803AbiJXBMA (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Oct 2022 21:12:00 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 545 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:11:57 PDT Received: from smtp.infotech.no (smtp.infotech.no [82.134.31.41]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7AE162A52 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:11:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.infotech.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A7E2041CF; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 03:02:53 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.6.6 (20110518) (Debian) at infotech.no Received: from smtp.infotech.no ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.infotech.no [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id D+Nj12dIbLLf; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 03:02:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from treten.bingwo.ca (host-45-78-203-98.dyn.295.ca [45.78.203.98]) by smtp.infotech.no (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4A88120413D; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 03:02:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Douglas Gilbert To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: martin.petersen@oracle.com, jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, hare@suse.de, bvanassche@acm.org Subject: [PATCH 0/5] scatterlist: add operations for scsi_debug Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 21:02:39 -0400 Message-Id: <20221024010244.9522-1-dgilbert@interlog.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.37.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org The scsi_debug driver is essentially a ramdisk dressed up as a SCSI host with one or more SCSI devices attached. Like all low level SCSI drivers, the scsi_debug driver receives and provides data to the SCSI mid-level (and the block layer) using scatterlists whose interface is found in include/linux/scatterlist.h . After trying kmalloc() then vmalloc() based storage for the scsi_debug driver, it was found that certain SCSI commands can be optimized if instead one or more scatterlists is used as its backing store. The specific SCSI command that benefits is VERIFY(BYTCHK=1) and the equivalent NVMe command is COMPARE. These commands have data-out buffers provided by an application that are compared by the storage device with the LBA and count (of block) given in the command. In this case the sgl_equal_sgl() function can be used instead of setting up a temporary buffer. The implementation of the more common SCSI READ and WRITE commands are simplified by using the sgl_copy_sgl() function. The first patch in this series removes an undocumented 4 GB limit in the existing sgl_alloc_order() function. In the final patch of this series, the scsi_debug driver uses the new facilities in scatterlist to replace its vmalloc() backing store. Douglas Gilbert (5): sgl_alloc_order: remove 4 GiB limit scatterlist: add sgl_copy_sgl() function scatterlist: add sgl_equal_sgl() function scatterlist: add sgl_memset() scsi_debug: change store from vmalloc to sgl drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 3 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c | 478 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- include/linux/scatterlist.h | 33 ++- lib/scatterlist.c | 253 ++++++++++++++++--- 4 files changed, 596 insertions(+), 171 deletions(-)