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From: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: kbusch@kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, sagi@grimberg.me,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tytso@mit.edu, nilay@linux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
	djwong@kernel.org, mcgrof@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] nvme: add an opt-in to use AWUPF
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:33:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14bfcc0e-ec43-4876-9b45-1f2824e1b059@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250821083537.GB29224@lst.de>

On 21/08/2025 09:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> +	list_for_each_entry(tmp, &subsys->ctrls, subsys_entry)
>> +		nvme_queue_scan(tmp);
> queueing a full rescan here seems expensive.  What about just keeping
> the awupf value in our internal data structures and always use it
> for the physical block size calculation,

is that even ok? physical block size implies atomicity also.

> but only apply it to the
> atomic limits based on a flag?

We have flag BLK_FEAT_ATOMIC_WRITES, which could be used, but in 
blk_validate_atomic_write_limits() we zero the hw limits if that flag is 
unset. So we need to fill in the hw limits like in this patch.


      reply	other threads:[~2025-08-21 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-20 15:02 [RFC PATCH] nvme: add an opt-in to use AWUPF John Garry
2025-08-20 21:51 ` Keith Busch
2025-08-21  5:25   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-08-21 13:42     ` Keith Busch
2025-08-21  8:38   ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-08-21 10:56   ` John Garry
2025-08-21  8:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-08-21 10:33   ` John Garry [this message]

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