[PATCH] NVMe: Skip namespaces with interleaved meta-data

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com> writes:

>> I think the best way to go about dealing with all this is to set
>> PRACT=1 if no bip is attached to a bio bound for a name space
>> formatted with PI.

Keith> That's an option for a subset of formats I eluded to before. It
Keith> will have the controller generate/strip if the metadata size 8
Keith> bytes with DPS settings, but ignored otherwise. We still need a
Keith> buffer if metadata is not used for PI, or if the metadata size
Keith> more than 8 bytes.

I agree it's a deficiency in the NVMe spec that there are no explicit
handling flags for non-PI metadata in split mode.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering