[PATCH] nvme: set dma alignment to 3

[Jonathan Derrick]

Hey Keith
On 5/4/2022 12:43 PM, 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.
> 
> Fixes: 3b2a1ebceba3 ("nvme: set dma alignment to qword")
Just a small nitpick but the original commit uses 'qword' and yours uses '3'
Would it be more descriptive to use 'dword'?

> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> index bea054565eed..0a6fb515a339 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> @@ -1771,7 +1771,7 @@ static void nvme_set_queue_limits(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl,
>  		blk_queue_max_segments(q, min_t(u32, max_segments, USHRT_MAX));
>  	}
>  	blk_queue_virt_boundary(q, NVME_CTRL_PAGE_SIZE - 1);
> -	blk_queue_dma_alignment(q, 7);
> +	blk_queue_dma_alignment(q, 3);
>  	blk_queue_write_cache(q, vwc, vwc);
>  }
>