From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, kbusch@kernel.org, hch@lst.de, sagi@grimberg.me,
jejb@linux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
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ritesh.list@gmail.com, Alan Adamson <alan.adamson@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/11] nvme: Atomic write support
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:31:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240220083119.GD13785@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240219130109.341523-11-john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Thanks for writing a good commit message!
> NVMe namespaces may define an atomic boundary, whereby no atomic guarantees
> are provided for a write which straddles this per-lba space boundary. The
> block layer merging policy is such that no merges may occur in which the
> resultant request would straddle such a boundary.
>
> Unlike SCSI, NVMe specifies no granularity or alignment rules.
Well, the boundary really is sort of a granularity and alignment,
isn't it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-20 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-19 13:00 [PATCH v4 00/11] block atomic writes John Garry
2024-02-19 13:00 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] block: Pass blk_queue_get_max_sectors() a request pointer John Garry
2024-02-19 18:57 ` Keith Busch
2024-02-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] block: Call blkdev_dio_unaligned() from blkdev_direct_IO() John Garry
2024-02-19 18:57 ` Keith Busch
2024-02-20 8:31 ` John Garry
2024-02-20 6:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-02-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] fs: Initial atomic write support John Garry
2024-02-19 19:16 ` David Sterba
2024-02-20 8:13 ` John Garry
2024-02-19 22:44 ` Dave Chinner
2024-02-20 9:52 ` John Garry
2024-02-24 18:16 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-02-24 18:20 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-02-26 8:58 ` John Garry
2024-02-26 9:13 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-02-26 9:46 ` John Garry
2024-02-26 8:51 ` John Garry
2024-02-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] fs: Add initial atomic write support info to statx John Garry
2024-02-19 22:28 ` Dave Chinner
2024-02-20 9:40 ` John Garry
2024-02-20 8:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-02-20 9:01 ` John Garry
2024-02-24 18:46 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-02-26 9:07 ` John Garry
2024-02-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] block: Add core atomic write support John Garry
2024-02-19 22:58 ` Dave Chinner
2024-02-20 8:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-02-20 10:01 ` John Garry
2024-02-25 12:09 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-02-25 12:21 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-02-26 9:23 ` John Garry
2024-02-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] block: Add atomic write support for statx John Garry
2024-02-20 8:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-02-20 9:35 ` John Garry
2024-02-25 14:20 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-02-26 9:36 ` John Garry
2024-02-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] block: Add fops atomic write support John Garry
2024-02-25 14:46 ` Ritesh Harjani
2024-02-26 9:46 ` John Garry
2024-02-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] scsi: sd: Atomic " John Garry
2024-02-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] scsi: scsi_debug: " John Garry
2024-02-20 7:12 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2024-02-20 9:01 ` John Garry
2024-02-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] nvme: " John Garry
2024-02-19 19:21 ` Keith Busch
2024-02-20 6:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-02-20 8:19 ` John Garry
2024-02-20 8:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-02-20 8:50 ` John Garry
2024-02-19 13:01 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] nvme: Ensure atomic writes will be executed atomically John Garry
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