From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Keith Busch <kbusch@meta.com>
Cc: <hch@lst.de>, <linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>,
<linux-block@vger.kernel.org>, <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 2/2] nvme: remove virtual boundary for sgl capable devices
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:19:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1347lchd0.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251014150456.2219261-3-kbusch@meta.com> (Keith Busch's message of "Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:04:56 -0700")
Keith,
> The nvme virtual boundary is only required for the PRP format. Devices
> that can use SGL for DMA don't need it for IO queues. Drop reporting
> it for such devices; rdma fabrics controllers will continue to use the
> limit as they currently don't report any boundary requirements, but
> tcp and fc never needed it in the first place so they get to report no
> virtual boundary.
>
> Applications may continue to align to the same virtual boundaries for
> optimization purposes if they want, and the driver will continue to
> decide whether to use the PRP format the same as before if the IO
> allows it.
Looks fine.
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Martin K. Petersen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-14 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-14 15:04 [PATCHv5 0/2] block, nvme: removing virtual boundary mask reliance Keith Busch
2025-10-14 15:04 ` [PATCHv5 1/2] block: accumulate memory segment gaps per bio Keith Busch
2025-10-14 21:18 ` Martin K. Petersen
2025-10-15 4:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-11 4:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-11-11 4:50 ` Keith Busch
2025-11-11 7:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-11 9:36 ` Yu Kuai
2025-11-11 9:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-11 10:14 ` Yu Kuai
2025-11-11 13:25 ` Keith Busch
2025-11-11 13:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-11 13:54 ` Keith Busch
2025-11-11 13:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-11-11 14:03 ` Yu Kuai
2025-10-14 15:04 ` [PATCHv5 2/2] nvme: remove virtual boundary for sgl capable devices Keith Busch
2025-10-14 21:19 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2025-11-07 1:03 ` [PATCHv5 0/2] block, nvme: removing virtual boundary mask reliance Keith Busch
2025-11-07 1:12 ` Jens Axboe
2025-11-07 1:12 ` Jens Axboe
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