virtio: block: dynamic maximum segments

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Enhance the driver to handle whatever maximum segment number the host
tells us to handle.  Do to this, we need to allocate the scatterlist
dynamically.

We set max_phys_segments and max_hw_segments to the same value (1 if
the host doesn't tell us, since that's safest and all known hosts do
tell us).

Note that kmalloc'ing the structure for large sg_elems might be
problematic: the fix for this is sg_table, but that requires more
work.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

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Rusty Russell 2008-12-30 09:26:05 -06:00

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