From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
To: Klaus Jensen <its@irrelevant.dk>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Klaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] hw/block/nvme: change controller pci id
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 11:33:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7465047d-ad7a-edab-bb65-8ed0a96fe5f6@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200907092052.GA706837@apples.localdomain>
On 9/7/20 11:20 AM, Klaus Jensen wrote:
> On Sep 7 10:58, Klaus Jensen wrote:
>> On Sep 7 10:36, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> On 9/7/20 9:23 AM, Klaus Jensen wrote:
>>>> On Sep 7 04:28, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>>> +David in case
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9/4/20 4:19 PM, Klaus Jensen wrote:
>>>>>> From: Klaus Jensen <k.jensen@samsung.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are two reasons for changing this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. The nvme device currently uses an internal Intel device id.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. Since commits "nvme: fix write zeroes offset and count" and "nvme:
>>>>>> support multiple namespaces" the controller device no longer has
>>>>>> the quirks that the Linux kernel think it has.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As the quirks are applied based on pci vendor and device id, change
>>>>>> them to get rid of the quirks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To keep backward compatibility, add a new 'x-use-intel-id' parameter to
>>>>>> the nvme device to force use of the Intel vendor and device id. This is
>>>>>> off by default but add a compat property to set this for 5.1 machines
>>>>>> and older.
>>>>>
>>>>> So now what happens if you start a 5.1 machine with a recent kernel?
>>>>> Simply the kernel will use unnecessary quirks, or are there more
>>>>> changes in behavior?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the kernel will then just apply unneccesary quirks, these are:
>>>>
>>>> 1. NVME_QUIRK_IDENTIFY_CNS which says that the device does not support
>>>> anything else than values 0x0 and 0x1 for CNS (Identify Namespace and
>>>> Identify Namespace). With multiple namespace support, this just
>>>> means that the kernel will "scan" namespaces instead of using
>>>> "Active Namespace ID list" (CNS 0x2).
>>>>
>>>> 2. NVME_QUIRK_DISABLE_WRITE_ZEROES. The nvme device started out with a
>>>> broken Write Zeroes implementation which has since been fixed in
>>>> commit 9d6459d21a6e ("nvme: fix write zeroes offset and count").
>>>
>>> OK thanks. Can you amend that information in the commit
>>> description please?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, absolutely.
>
> By the way. Is it correct use of an 'x-' parameter here - since it is
> something that we might remove in the future? I was unable to find any
> documentation on the purpose of the 'x-' prefix, but I was guessing it
> was for stuff like this.
Probably not. 'x-' is for unstable debugging/testing features.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-07 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-04 14:19 [PATCH 00/17] hw/block/nvme: multiple namespaces support Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 01/17] pci: pass along the return value of dma_memory_rw Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 02/17] hw/block/nvme: handle dma errors Klaus Jensen
2020-09-07 2:34 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-07 7:49 ` Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 03/17] hw/block/nvme: commonize nvme_rw error handling Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 04/17] hw/block/nvme: alignment style fixes Klaus Jensen
2020-09-07 2:29 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 05/17] hw/block/nvme: add a lba to bytes helper Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 06/17] hw/block/nvme: fix endian conversion Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 07/17] hw/block/nvme: add symbolic command name to trace events Klaus Jensen
2020-09-07 2:14 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 08/17] hw/block/nvme: refactor aio submission Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 19:47 ` Keith Busch
2020-09-04 20:38 ` Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 21:15 ` Keith Busch
2020-09-04 21:38 ` Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 09/17] hw/block/nvme: default request status to success Klaus Jensen
2020-09-07 2:17 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 10/17] hw/block/nvme: support multiple parallel aios per request Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 11/17] hw/block/nvme: harden cmb access Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 12/17] hw/block/nvme: add support for scatter gather lists Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 13/17] hw/block/nvme: add support for sgl bit bucket descriptor Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 14/17] hw/block/nvme: refactor identify active namespace id list Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 15/17] hw/block/nvme: support multiple namespaces Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 16/17] pci: allocate pci id for nvme Klaus Jensen
2020-09-04 14:19 ` [PATCH 17/17] hw/block/nvme: change controller pci id Klaus Jensen
2020-09-07 2:28 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-07 7:23 ` Klaus Jensen
2020-09-07 8:36 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-07 8:58 ` Klaus Jensen
2020-09-07 9:20 ` Klaus Jensen
2020-09-07 9:33 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2020-09-07 10:37 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-07 10:50 ` Klaus Jensen
2020-09-07 10:52 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-07 11:02 ` Klaus Jensen
2020-09-08 15:39 ` Keith Busch
2020-09-04 16:12 ` [PATCH 00/17] hw/block/nvme: multiple namespaces support Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-04 17:17 ` Klaus Jensen
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