Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] usbip: Implement SG support to vhci-hcd and stub driver

[shuah]

On 8/5/19 2:04 AM, Suwan Kim wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 04:41:52PM -0600, shuah wrote:
> > Hi Suwan,
> >
> > On 8/2/19 11:36 AM, Suwan Kim wrote:
> > > There are bugs on vhci with usb 3.0 storage device.
> >
> > This sentence doesn't make sense to me. What bugs? Ca you eloborate?
>
> Alan's patch description "usb-storage: Set virt_boundary_mask to
> avoid SG overflows" elaborates the problem. In USB, each SG list
> entry buffer should be divisible by the bulk maxpacket size. But
> with native SG support, this problem doesn't matter because the
> SG buffer is treated as contiguous buffer. But without native SG
> support, storage driver breaks SG list into several URBs and each
> URB is sparate transfer.
>
> Let's assume that driver request 31.5 KB data and has SG list which
> has 3584 bytes buffer followed by 7 4096 bytes buffer for some
> reason. USB Storage driver splits this SG list into several URBs
> because VHCI doesn't support SG and send them separately. So the
> first URB buffer size is 3584 bytes. When receiving data from device,
> USB 3.0 device sends data packet of 1024 bytes size because the max
> packet size of BULK pipe is 1024 bytes. So device sends 4096 bytes.
> But the first URB buffer has only 3584 bytes buffer size. So host
> controller terminates the transfer even though there is more data
> to receive.
>
> Please also reference the mail thread
> https://marc.info/?t=155449209600003&r=1&w=2
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=155482317722223&w=2

I am asking you to elaborate and add it to the commit log instead of
just saying "There are bugs on vhci with usb 3.0 storage device."

thanks,
-- Shuah