Re: [PATCH v3] nvme-pci: Support shared tags across queues for Apple 2018 controllers

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Aug 05 2019 - 15:09:14 EST


On 8/5/19 11:27 AM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>
>>> Ping ? I had another look today and I don't feel like mucking around
>>> with all the AQ size logic, AEN magic tag etc... just for that sake of
>>> that Apple gunk. I'm happy to have it give up IO tags, it doesn't seem
>>> to make much of a difference in practice anyway.
>>>
>>> But if you feel strongly about it, then I'll implement the "proper" way
>>> sometimes this week, adding a way to shrink the AQ down to something
>>> like 3 (one admin request, one async event (AEN), and the empty slot)
>>> by making a bunch of the constants involved variables instead.
>>
>> I don't feel too strongly about it. I think your patch is fine, so
>>
>> Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Should we pick this up for 5.3-rc?

No, it's not a regression fix. Queue it up for 5.4 instead.

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Jens Axboe