scsi: target: tcmu: Support DATA_BLOCK_SIZE = N * PAGE_SIZE
Change tcmu to support DATA_BLOCK_SIZE being a multiple of PAGE_SIZE. There are two reasons why one would like to have a bigger DATA_BLOCK_SIZE: 1) If userspace - e.g. due to data compression, encryption or deduplication - needs to have receive or transmit data in a consecutive buffer, we can define DATA_BLOCK_SIZE to the maximum size of a SCSI READ/WRITE to enforce that userspace sees just one consecutive buffer. That way we can avoid the need for doing data copy in userspace. 2) Using a bigger data block size can speed up command processing in tcmu. The number of free data blocks to look up in bitmap is reduced substantially. The lookup for data pages in radix_tree can be done more efficiently if there are multiple pages in a data block. The maximum number of IOVs to set up is lower so cmd entries in the ring become smaller. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210324195758.2021-4-bostroesser@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bostroesser@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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