[PATCH v2] nvme-pci: add NO_FUA quirk for ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 BLADE
Hugo Deco
hugodeco at sufficit.com.br
Tue Nov 3 10:12:04 PST 2026
On the ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 BLADE (PCI 1cc1:5370, firmware 03020P5E)
every Write with the FUA bit set takes 200, 400 or 600 ms to complete,
always a multiple of ~200 ms, while a plain Write completes in
0.0-0.4 ms and a Flush in ~1.3 ms. Tracing nvme_setup_cmd and
nvme_complete_rq shows the whole delay is between submission and
completion, i.e. inside the device (e.g. FUA write, control 0x4000:
598.3 ms).
Because ext4/jbd2 issue FUA for every journal commit, fsync() on this
drive stalls for 250-890 ms and desktop applications freeze.
Add NVME_QUIRK_NO_FUA, which stops advertising BLK_FEAT_FUA while
keeping the volatile write cache enabled, so the block layer emulates
FUA with a Write followed by a Flush. Durability semantics are
unchanged. Apply it to the S70 BLADE through nvme_id_table.
With the quirk applied, 4 KiB O_DIRECT|O_DSYNC writes and
create+write+fsync drop from 250-890 ms to a 0.82-0.85 ms median
(30 samples, two partitions on the same drive).
Signed-off-by: Hugo Deco <hugodeco at sufficit.com.br>
---
v2:
- Match the device by PCI ID in nvme_id_table instead of the model
string in core_quirks (Keith Busch).
drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 2 ++
drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h | 8 ++++++++
drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index a7a4d09..a9f54ef 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -2482,6 +2482,8 @@ static int nvme_update_ns_info_block(struct nvme_ns *ns,
lim.features |= BLK_FEAT_WRITE_CACHE | BLK_FEAT_FUA;
else
lim.features &= ~(BLK_FEAT_WRITE_CACHE | BLK_FEAT_FUA);
+ if (ns->ctrl->quirks & NVME_QUIRK_NO_FUA)
+ lim.features &= ~BLK_FEAT_FUA;
if (info->is_rotational)
lim.features |= BLK_FEAT_ROTATIONAL;
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
index 2d8f681..8833a46 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
@@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ enum nvme_quirks {
* Admin queue DMA buffers must be page aligned
*/
NVME_QUIRK_ADMIN_PAGE_ALIGN = (1 << 23),
+
+ /*
+ * The device is extremely slow on FUA writes but fast on Flush;
+ * do not advertise FUA so the block layer emulates it.
+ */
+ NVME_QUIRK_NO_FUA = (1 << 24),
};
static inline char *nvme_quirk_name(enum nvme_quirks q)
@@ -236,6 +242,8 @@ static inline char *nvme_quirk_name(enum nvme_quirks q)
return "dmapool_align_512";
case NVME_QUIRK_ADMIN_PAGE_ALIGN:
return "admin_page_align";
+ case NVME_QUIRK_NO_FUA:
+ return "no_fua";
}
return "unknown";
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index 019a1e3..e262f38 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -4483,6 +4483,8 @@ static const struct pci_device_id nvme_id_table[] = {
.driver_data = NVME_QUIRK_BOGUS_NID, },
{ PCI_DEVICE(0x1cc1, 0x5350), /* ADATA XPG GAMMIX S50 */
.driver_data = NVME_QUIRK_BOGUS_NID, },
+ { PCI_DEVICE(0x1cc1, 0x5370), /* ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 BLADE */
+ .driver_data = NVME_QUIRK_NO_FUA, },
{ PCI_DEVICE(0x1dbe, 0x5216), /* Acer/INNOGRIT FA100/5216 NVMe SSD */
.driver_data = NVME_QUIRK_BOGUS_NID, },
{ PCI_DEVICE(0x1dbe, 0x5236), /* ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 */
--
2.53.0
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