[PATCH 9/9] nvme: add support for streams and directives

Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen at oracle.com
Mon Jun 26 10:52:02 PDT 2017


Christoph,

>  - can we keep a module option to disable streams, or in fact for
>    now maybe to explicitly enable it?  I expect this to be interesting
>    at least for the first devices that implement it.  Also given that
>    it needs to be explicitly enabled I would expect some overhead of
>    just enabling it when never used

Yeah, based on my experiments we'll need to drive this as an opt-in
feature for now. Short term the module option is OK. Once more devices
start materializing we probably need a white/blacklist/quirk scheme.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



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