scsi: ipr: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
authorMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 01:37:46 +0000 (09:37 +0800)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:21:32 +0000 (15:21 -0400)
commitc71ae886d1321e74f524c7c023933cf87768915d
treecfca5d519bb2a2e731d6c084259302a29bf9b0be
parent3c1a30df6d9c21c3235b6af5f25da2765b19d05b
scsi: ipr: 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: 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/ipr.c