scsi: ppa: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
authorMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 01:37:55 +0000 (09:37 +0800)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:21:33 +0000 (15:21 -0400)
commit57ef4e510939e305ad905cc54b8031401ff5450e
tree3238204aac5cace7ffda1f7eb2d1b4dce8b49152
parent1b3a4640106603ce6b3ad261ef4d20ea60e9790b
scsi: ppa: 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: 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>
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