[PATCHv3 3/5] nvme: implement I/O Command Sets Command Set support

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Tue Jun 23 10:25:03 EDT 2020


On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 09:20:35AM +0000, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 08:20:23AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > On 6/22/20 6:25 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
> > > From: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel at wdc.com>
> > > -	if (ctrl->vs >= NVME_VS(1, 3, 0))
> > > +	if (ctrl->vs >= NVME_VS(1, 3, 0) || nvme_multi_css(ctrl))
> > >   		return nvme_identify_ns_descs(ctrl, nsid, ids);
> > >   	return 0;
> > >   }
> > 
> > Hmm? Are command sets even defined for something earlier than 1.3?
> 
> According to Keith, usually new features are not really tied to a
> specific NVMe version.

Not really according to me; nvme just allows controllers to implement
features ratified after the initial version release.
 
> So if someone implements/enables multiple command sets feature on
> an older base spec of NVMe, we still want to support/allow that.

Right. We don't check the version to see if multi-command sets are
supported when we initially enable it, so we shouldn't need to check the
version later.



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