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

From: Keith Busch
Date: Mon Aug 05 2019 - 14:41:27 EST


On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 11:27:54AM -0700, 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?

Probably not. While I don't think this is a risky patch set, it's not
a bug fix for anything we introduced during the merge window. Christoph
also stated he wanted this to go in the 5.4 merge window.