Re: [PATCH v4] libata: Add ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_AMD for Samsung 860 and 870 SSD.

Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-01T06:33:24Z

On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 12:52:20PM +0800, Kate Hsuan wrote:
> Many users are reporting that the Samsung 860 and 870 SSD are having
> various issues when combined with AMD SATA controllers and only
> completely disabling NCQ helps to avoid these issues.
>
> Always disabling NCQ for Samsung 860/870 SSDs regardless of the host
> SATA adapter vendor will cause I/O performance degradation with well
> behaved adapters. To limit the performance impact to AMD adapters,
> introduce the ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_AMD flag to force disable NCQ
> only for these adapters.
>
> BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201693
> Signed-off-by: Kate Hsuan <hpa@redhat.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>