[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] Allow usage of unpriv_sgio for SCSI generic hostdev

[John Ferlan]

On 08/24/2018 09:02 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 01:32:41PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:50:00AM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
>>> In what is perhaps a couple lifetimes ago at this point, patches
>>> were posted and "mostly" all eventually accepted upstream to support
>>> unpriv_sgio on SCSI generic hostdev devices. Since the needed parts
>>> of the functionality from the kernel perspective were not yet present
>>> upstream, a couple of the patches were not accepted. See:
>>>
>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-July/msg00204.html
>>>
>>> and in particular patches 9 and 10. Since that time it seems things
>>> have changed
>>
>> Nice!
>>
>> Do you have the kernel commit IDs?
> 
> I've not found any sign of the "unpriv_sgio" sysfs file existing
> in today's upstream LKML tree, so I'm not sure this is correct.
> 

OK then, so much for assumptions... Well then we'll ignore this for
now..  It's rather a painful to follow all the links in the private bz's
on this.

John