[PATCH] nvme: set discard_alignment to zero

David Disseldorp ddiss at suse.de
Fri Nov 24 07:30:53 PST 2017


Similar to 7c084289795b ("rbd: set discard_alignment to zero"), NVMe
devices are currently incorrectly initialised with the block queue
discard_alignment set to the NVMe stream alignment.

As per Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block:
  The discard_alignment parameter indicates how many bytes the beginning
  of the device is offset from the internal allocation unit's natural
  alignment.

Correcting the discard_alignment parameter to zero has no effect on how
discard requests are propagated through the block layer - @alignment in
__blkdev_issue_discard() remains zero. However, it does fix other
consumers, such as LIO's Block Limits VPD response.

Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss at suse.de>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index 25da74d310d1..2e224ab5c340 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -1287,7 +1287,7 @@ static void nvme_config_discard(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl,
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct nvme_dsm_range) <
 			NVME_DSM_MAX_RANGES);
 
-	queue->limits.discard_alignment = size;
+	queue->limits.discard_alignment = 0;
 	queue->limits.discard_granularity = size;
 
 	blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(queue, UINT_MAX);
-- 
2.13.6




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