[PATCH] nvme: Use non zero KATO for persistent discovery connections
Keith Busch
kbusch at kernel.org
Mon Sep 22 13:26:30 PDT 2025
On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 01:52:11PM +1000, alistair23 at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis at wdc.com>
>
> The NVMe Base Specification 2.1 states that:
>
> """
> A host requests an explicit persistent connection ... by specifying a
> non-zero Keep Alive Timer value in the Connect command.
> """
>
> As such if we are starting a persistent connection to a discovery
> controller and the KATO is currently 0 we need to update KATO to a non
> zero value to avoid continuous timeouts on the target.
Thanks, applied to nvme-6.18.
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