Change iscsi_scsi_command_async() to write data-out using iovectors
attached to the scsi task structure instead of copying the data into
the buffer holding the header.
Still allow passing the data via an argument to the funtcion so that the
ABI does not change but then just conver the data to an iovector.
Update the write_to_socket functions to know about the iovectors and write them
as part of the pdu.
Convert write10_task to use iovectors.
This will allow 'zero-copy' writes through libiscsi.
However, as 'zero-copy writes does mean that we do more send() calls into
the kernel this may degrade performance for very small i/o.
A scsi write will not take at least 2 send() calls.
One send call for the iscsi header structure and a second send call for the
payload data.
This will be more expensive than the old memcpy() of payload data plus one send() call since the send() will be a lot more expensive than memcpy() of a small amount of data.
This has the nice side effect to remove the compiler warning
"dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules"
which occur since gcc-4.7.
There are 79 locations where the warning occurs. All of them are in
statements where the htonl/htons/ntohl/ntohs functions are used, e.g.:
in lib/pdu.c itt = ntohl(*(uint32_t *)&in->hdr[16]);
in lib/scsi-lowlevel.c *(uint32_t *)&task->cdb[2] = htonl(lba);
The warning is not related to the htonl/htons/ntohl/ntohs functions but
to the casting/dereferencing operation. If the dereferenced variable is
already a pointer, the warning does not not occur, e.g. this one:
in lib/pdu.c itt = ntohl(*(uint32_t *)&in->data[16]);
The warning is caused by the -fstrict-aliasing option. The
-fstrict-aliasing option is enabled at optimization levels -O2, -O3, -Os.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Kohl <bernhard.kohl@gmx.net>
added a few tweaks to further remove the need to memory
allocation resizing by preallocating the right buffer size.
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
If BYTCHK is false the target will perform a medium check of the indicated
LBAs only and not compare with anything out of the DATA-OUT buffers.
As such we dont need to/should not transfer any DAT-OUT to the target.
