scsi: lpfc: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
authorMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 01:37:44 +0000 (09:37 +0800)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:39:21 +0000 (14:39 -0400)
commit46e8e475a160be5e31e99171b7c0c8a21eb4d6ad
treed816e82bc261d63a2937d1200cb0bf368e3b8a7a
parentc0d0d81ad34a41e2aa562bc59f22bed3e9e98080
scsi: lpfc: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist

Unlike the legacy I/O path, scsi-mq preallocates a large array to hold
the scatterlist for each request. This static allocation can consume
substantial amounts of memory on modern controllers which support a
large number of concurrently outstanding requests.

To facilitate a switch to a smaller static allocation combined with a
dynamic allocation for requests that need it, we need to make sure all
SCSI drivers handle chained scatterlists correctly.

Convert remaining drivers that directly dereference the scatterlist
array to using the iterator functions.

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Reviewed by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_nvmet.c