[PATCH] nvme: set dma alignment to 3

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu May 5 06:45:34 PDT 2022


On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 11:43:25AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> From: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>
> 
> The nvme specification only requires qword alignment for segment
> descriptors, and the driver already guarantees that. The spec has always
> allowed user data to be dword aligned, which is what the queue's
> attribute is for, so relax the alignment requirement to that value.
> 
> While we could allow byte alignment for some controllers when using
> SGLs, we still need to support PRP, and that only allows dword.

Can't we just turn it go up to eleven? ;-)




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