Re: [PATCH v6] libata: Add ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI for Samsung 860 and 870 SSD.

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Sep 03 2021 - 10:05:59 EST


On 9/3/21 8:03 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 9/3/21 2:35 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 9/3/21 3:44 AM, Kate Hsuan wrote:
>>> Many users are reporting that the Samsung 860 and 870 SSD are having
>>> various issues when combined with AMD/ATI (vendor ID 0x1002) SATA
>>> controllers and only completely disabling NCQ helps to avoid these
>>> issues.
>>>
>>> Always disabling NCQ for Samsung 860/870 SSDs regardless of the host
>>> SATA adapter vendor will cause I/O performance degradation with well
>>> behaved adapters. To limit the performance impact to ATI adapters,
>>> introduce the ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI flag to force disable NCQ
>>> only for these adapters.
>>>
>>> Also, two libata.force parameters (noncqati and ncqati) are introduced
>>> to disable and enable the NCQ for the system which equipped with ATI
>>> SATA adapter and Samsung 860 and 870 SSDs. The user can determine NCQ
>>> function to be enabled or disabled according to the demand.
>>>
>>> After verifying the chipset from the user reports, the issue appears
>>> on AMD/ATI SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controllers and does not appear on
>>> recent AMD SATA adapters. The vendor ID of ATI should be 0x1002.
>>> Therefore, ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_AMD was modified to
>>> ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI.
>>
>> What's this patch against?
>
> linux-block/for-next + my pre-cursor patch from here:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/20210823095220.30157-1-hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u

Still had to fixup a hunk, but it was trivial. In any case, I've applied
both now, thanks!

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Jens Axboe