scatterlist: allow chaining to preallocated chunks
Blk-mq drivers usually preallocate their S/G list as part of the request, but if we want to support the very large S/G lists currently supported by the SCSI code that would tie up a lot of memory in the preallocated request pool. Add support to the scatterlist code so that it can initialize a S/G list that uses a preallocated first chunks and dynamically allocated additional chunks. That way the scsi-mq code can preallocate a first page worth of S/G entries as part of the request, and dynamically extend the S/G list when needed. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Webb Scales <webbnh@hp.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Tested-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
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