Scatter-gather list constraints

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Cc: AntonioLin <antonio.lin@...>, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...>
Date: Friday, June 20, 2008 - 4:30 pm

Is there any way to express the constraint that for a particular 
request queue, all members of a scatter-gather list (except the last) 
must be a multiple of a particular length?

This question arises in connection with wireless USB mass-storage
devices.  The controller driver requires that all DMA segments
in a transfer, other than the last one, have a multiple of 1024 bytes.  
But we're sometimes getting s-g lists where an element contains an odd
number of 512-byte sectors, and of course it doesn't work.

Thanks,

Alan Stern

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Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Fri Jun 20, 4:30 pm)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, David Vrabel, (Mon Jun 23, 10:46 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Mon Jun 23, 11:12 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, David Vrabel, (Mon Jun 23, 3:06 pm)
RE: Scatter-gather list constraints, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky, (Wed Jun 25, 12:02 am)
RE: Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Wed Jun 25, 10:24 am)
RE: Scatter-gather list constraints, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky, (Thu Jun 26, 12:43 pm)
RE: Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Thu Jun 26, 3:34 pm)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez, (Thu Jun 26, 6:39 pm)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Mon Jun 23, 3:45 pm)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Stefan Richter, (Mon Jun 23, 5:53 pm)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Andi Kleen, (Sat Jun 21, 9:59 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Sat Jun 21, 10:54 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Andi Kleen, (Sat Jun 21, 11:21 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Sat Jun 21, 5:50 pm)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, FUJITA Tomonori, (Tue Jun 24, 6:41 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Tue Jun 24, 10:57 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, FUJITA Tomonori, (Tue Jun 24, 8:18 pm)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Wed Jun 25, 10:23 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, FUJITA Tomonori, (Wed Jun 25, 10:06 pm)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, FUJITA Tomonori, (Thu Jun 26, 1:39 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Jens Axboe, (Thu Jun 26, 2:35 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Thu Jun 26, 10:18 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, FUJITA Tomonori, (Thu Jun 26, 2:58 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Jens Axboe, (Thu Jun 26, 8:39 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Boaz Harrosh, (Thu Jun 26, 11:16 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Jens Axboe, (Thu Jun 26, 1:39 pm)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Thu Jun 26, 11:12 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Jens Axboe, (Thu Jun 26, 1:41 pm)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Wed Aug 27, 5:32 pm)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Andi Kleen, (Thu Jun 26, 8:54 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Jens Axboe, (Thu Jun 26, 9:00 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Andi Kleen, (Sat Jun 21, 7:00 pm)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, Alan Stern, (Sun Jun 22, 10:35 am)
Re: Scatter-gather list constraints, David Miller, (Fri Jun 20, 4:50 pm)