block: add max_hw_transfer to BlockLimits

For block host devices, I/O can happen through either the kernel file
descriptor I/O system calls (preadv/pwritev, io_submit, io_uring)
or the SCSI passthrough ioctl SG_IO.

In the latter case, the size of each transfer can be limited by the
HBA, while for file descriptor I/O the kernel is able to split and
merge I/O in smaller pieces as needed.  Applying the HBA limits to
file descriptor I/O results in more system calls and suboptimal
performance, so this patch splits the max_transfer limit in two:
max_transfer remains valid and is used in general, while max_hw_transfer
is limited to the maximum hardware size.  max_hw_transfer can then be
included by the scsi-generic driver in the block limits page, to ensure
that the stricter hardware limit is used.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/sysemu/block-backend.h b/include/sysemu/block-backend.h
index 5423e3d9c6..9ac5f7bbd3 100644
--- a/include/sysemu/block-backend.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/block-backend.h
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ void blk_eject(BlockBackend *blk, bool eject_flag);
 int blk_get_flags(BlockBackend *blk);
 uint32_t blk_get_request_alignment(BlockBackend *blk);
 uint32_t blk_get_max_transfer(BlockBackend *blk);
+uint64_t blk_get_max_hw_transfer(BlockBackend *blk);
 int blk_get_max_iov(BlockBackend *blk);
 void blk_set_guest_block_size(BlockBackend *blk, int align);
 void *blk_try_blockalign(BlockBackend *blk, size_t size);