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Commit c53c6d6a authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig
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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: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWebb Scales <webbnh@hp.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tested-by: default avatarBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Tested-by: default avatarRobert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
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