What should we do about the nvme atomics mess?

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 10:37:19AM +0530, Nilay Shroff wrote:
> So in this case, it's actually the opposite of what one might assume:
> Users of namespaces with 4KB LBA format would see the best possible atomic write
> performance, while those using 512-byte LBA format may observe sub-optimal 
> performance, since the maximum atomic write size scales down with smaller LBAs.

The problem is that we need to deal with the worst case and not the
best case.  And NVMe royally messed up there.