[PATCH v4 10/11] nvme: Atomic write support
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Tue Feb 20 00:31:19 PST 2024
Thanks for writing a good commit message!
> NVMe namespaces may define an atomic boundary, whereby no atomic guarantees
> are provided for a write which straddles this per-lba space boundary. The
> block layer merging policy is such that no merges may occur in which the
> resultant request would straddle such a boundary.
>
> Unlike SCSI, NVMe specifies no granularity or alignment rules.
Well, the boundary really is sort of a granularity and alignment,
isn't it?
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