[PATCH] nvme: Split requests by maximum allowed size

[Alexander Graf]

Some NVMe controllers only support small maximum request sizes, such as
the AWS EBS NVMe implementation which only supports NVMe requests of up
to 64 sectors at once.

BIOS callers can easily exceed those request sizes by defining sector
counts above this threshold. Currently we fall back to the bounce buffer
implementation for those. This is slow.

This patch introduces splitting logic to the NVMe I/O request code so
that every NVMe I/O request gets handled in a chunk size that is
consumable by the NVMe adapter, while maintaining the fast path PRPL
logic we just introduced.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf

---

This patch is a follow-up to the NVMe PRP list patch set
---
 src/hw/nvme.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/hw/nvme.c b/src/hw/nvme.c
index ec05836..4eb9a02 100644
--- a/src/hw/nvme.c
+++ b/src/hw/nvme.c
@@ -727,6 +727,22 @@ nvme_cmd_readwrite(struct nvme_namespace *ns, struct disk_op_s *op, int write)
     u16 const max_blocks = NVME_PAGE_SIZE / ns->block_size;
     u16 i;

+    /* Split up requests that are larger than the device can handle */
+    if (op->count > ns->max_req_size) {
+        u16 count = op->count;
+
+        /* Handle the first max_req_size elements */
+        op->count = ns->max_req_size;
+        if (nvme_cmd_readwrite(ns, op, write))
+            return res;
+
+        /* Handle the remainder of the request */
+        op->count = count - ns->max_req_size;
+        op->lba += ns->max_req_size;
+        op->buf_fl += (ns->max_req_size * ns->block_size);
+        return nvme_cmd_readwrite(ns, op, write);
+    }
+
     if (!nvme_build_prpl(ns, op)) {
         /* Request goes via PRP List logic */
         return nvme_io_readwrite(ns, op->lba, ns->prp1, op->count, write);