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From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] nvme: don't set io_opt if NOWS is zero
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 07:55:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZoK1WRFbr1dK86FK@kbusch-mbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240701051800.1245240-4-hch@lst.de>

On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 07:17:52AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> NOWS is one of the annoying "0's based values" in NVMe, where 0 means one
> and we thus can't detect if it isn't set.  

We can detect if it is set based on the namespace features flags,
though.

> Thus a NOWS value of 0 means
> that the Namespace Optimal Write Size is a single LBA, which is clearly
> bogus.  Ignore the value in that case and don't propagate an io_opt
> value to the block layer.

Hm, why is that clearly bogus? Optane SSDs were optimized for
single-sector writes.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-07-01 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20240701073115epcas5p3e2758375e272cba80281fe0ac37394d0@epcas5p3.samsung.com>
2024-07-01  5:17 ` io_opt fixups Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-01  5:17   ` [PATCH 1/3] block: remove a duplicate io_min check in blk_validate_limits Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-01  6:37     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2024-07-01  7:06     ` Sagi Grimberg
2024-07-01  5:17   ` [PATCH 2/3] block: don't reduce max_sectors based on io_opt Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-01  6:42     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2024-07-01  7:08     ` Sagi Grimberg
2024-07-01  5:17   ` [PATCH 3/3] nvme: don't set io_opt if NOWS is zero Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-01  7:02     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2024-07-01  7:08     ` Sagi Grimberg
2024-07-01 13:55     ` Keith Busch [this message]
2024-07-01 15:11       ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-01  7:24   ` io_opt fixups Nitesh Shetty
2024-07-01 10:22   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2024-07-01 12:53   ` Jens Axboe

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