Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] nvme: Add abrupt shutdown support

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 10:40:21AM +0000, Shivamurthy Shastri (sshivamurthy) wrote:
> Micron Confidential
> 
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 10:11:57AM +0000, shiva.linuxworks@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Shivamurthy Shastri <sshivamurthy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Enabling the abrupt shutdown support. In this shutdown type host does
> > > not need to send Delete I/O Submission Queue and Delete I/O Completion
> > > queue commands to the device.
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> This is to achieve faster shutdown at the cost of data in-flight.

What is the actual use case, and why would a module paramter be a good
interface?