[PATCHv2 7/7] nvme: add support for enhanced metadata

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Wed Feb 2 08:38:27 PST 2022


On 2/2/22 16:41, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 02:28:53PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> On 2/1/22 20:01, Keith Busch wrote:
[ .. ]
>>> @@ -3104,7 +3218,7 @@ int nvme_init_ctrl_finish(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
>>>    	if (ret < 0)
>>>    		return ret;
>>> -	ret = nvme_configure_acre(ctrl);
>>> +	ret = nvme_configure_host_options(ctrl);
>>>    	if (ret < 0)
>>>    		return ret;
>>
>> This could be made into a separate patch, is it's not directly related to PI
>> support. >
> Well, the driver can't read the new PI formats without enabling host
> supported features for it. Enabling the feature tells the controller
> we're going to check for it, so I don't think we could reasonably split
> this part into a prep patch from the part that sets up the PI formats.

Actually I was thinking about a patch renaming 'nvme_configure_acre' 
into 'nvme_configure_host_options', as _this_ really is independent.
When mixed together with the PI stuff it's hard to track down from the 
commit message when it got changed.

Cheers,

Hannes
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