[PATCH 1/3] nvme: Add Arbitration Burst support

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Tue Jun 23 22:51:35 EDT 2020


On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 09:34:08AM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
> OK, I understaood your concern. Now we will select the RR arbitration as default
> in nvme_enable_ctrl(), but for some cases, we will not set the arbitration burst
> values from userspace, and we still want to use the defaut arbitration burst that
> recommended by the controller, taking into consideration any latency requirements.
> 
> So I'd like to add a parameter to decide if we can use the default arbitration
> burst like below, how do yo think? Thanks.

I wouldn't call this the 'default' arbitration since it usually is not
the default. This is the 'recommended' arbitration value.
 
> static bool use_default_arb;
> module_param(use_default_arb, bool, 0444);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(use_default_arb, "use default arbitration burst that
> recommended by the controller");

"use controller's recommended arbitration burst"



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