Re: [PATCH] nvme: honor the volatile write cache enable state
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Oct 28 2026 - 12:16:54 EST
On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 10:08:05AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> > Considering the performance impact for these type of device,s would you be
> > open to a backport to stable once merged ?
>
> Not sure when a performance improvement is stable worthy. I'm more
> concerned that doing this is going to expose corruption, but it's what
> the device is asking for, so fine to introduce it, but stable is
> questionable.
Same here. We should not send these improvements to stable, but let
them soak in linux-next and mainline.