[stgt] [PATCH] support custom block sizes

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:33:17 +0200
Alexander Nezhinsky <alexandern at Voltaire.COM> wrote:

> Added support for user-defined block size.
> 
> The rationale is for using with devices (notably SSDs) that allow
> formatting with sector size different from 512B. If such device
> is formatted to a greater value, but tgt reports its sector size
> to be 512B, all commands referencing device sectors and/or extents
> will address wrong locations, some of which will be even out of
> the device's capacity.
> 
> This patch follows the patch posted here:
> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/stgt/2009-December/003469.html
> and elaborates the suggested functionality a bit further.
> 
> The default block size is maintained by sbc (block devices).
> It is set to 512B. After this all block devices will report
> the passed block sz value during scsi inquiries.
> 
> Block size can be set for individual luns as well using
> --params blocksize=4096,...
> among the parameters of new logical unit through tgtadm.
> 
> This may be used in scripts as follows:
> --params blocksize=`blockdev --getss /dev/sdd`
> In this case lun specific setting overrides sbc default.
> 
> Tha actual per lun is displayed through -m target -o show.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Nezhinsky <alexandern at voltaire.com>
> ---
>  usr/sbc.c    |   25 +++++++++++++++++--------
>  usr/target.c |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  usr/tgtd.h   |    1 +
>  usr/util.c   |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  usr/util.h   |    1 +
>  5 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Thanks, merged.
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