Re: [PATCH v5] libata: Add ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_AMD for Samsung 860 and 870 SSD.

[Martin K. Petersen]

Hans,

> I just realized that all newer Samsung models are non SATA...
>
> Still I cponsider it likely that some of the other vendors also
> implement queued trim support and there are no reports of issues
> with the other vendors' SSDs.

When I originally worked on this the only other drive that supported
queued trim was a specific controller generation from Crucial/Micron.

Since performance-sensitive workloads quickly moved to NVMe, I don't
know if implementing queued trim has been very high on the SSD
manufacturers' todo lists. FWIW, I just checked and none of the more
recent SATA SSD drives I happen to have support queued trim.

Purely anecdotal: I have a Samsung 863 which I believe is
architecturally very similar to the 860. That drive clocked over 40K
hours as my main git repo/build drive until it was retired last
fall. And it ran a queued fstrim every night.

Anyway. I am not against disabling queued trim for these drives. As far
as I'm concerned it was a feature that didn't quite get enough industry
momentum. It just irks me that we don't have a good understanding of why
it works for some and not for others...

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering