[PATCH] nvme: honor the volatile write cache enable state

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Wed Oct 28 09:16:39 PDT 2026


On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 10:08:05AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> > Considering the performance impact for these type of device,s would you be
> > open to a backport to stable once merged ?
> 
> Not sure when a performance improvement is stable worthy. I'm more
> concerned that doing this is going to expose corruption, but it's what
> the device is asking for, so fine to introduce it, but stable is
> questionable.

Same here.  We should not send these improvements to stable, but let
them soak in linux-next and mainline.




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