Re: [RFC v1] nvme: add cse, ds, ms, nsze and nuse to sysfs

From: Keith Busch
Date: Mon Nov 27 2023 - 11:46:51 EST


On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 05:33:33PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 09:30:14AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> > > > Should this even be an nvme specific attribute? I thought we should have
> > > > blk-integrity.c report its 'tuple_size' attribute instead. That should
> > > > work as long as we're not dealing with extended metadata at least, but
> > > > that's kind of a special format that doesn't have block layer support.
> > >
> > > Reporting the tuple size is a good idea. But is that enough for
> > > the existing nvme-cli use case?
> >
> > nvme-cli currently queries with admin passthrough identify command, so
> > adding a new attribute won't break that. I assume Daniel would have it
> > fallback to that same command for backward compatibilty if a desired
> > sysfs attribute doesn't exist.
>
> Yes. But does it care about the tuple size, or the actual size of the
> metadata field even if is bigger than the PI tuple?

tuple_size is the same value as metadata size regardless of PI usage.
See nvme_init_integrity() for how this driver sets it:

integrity.tuple_size = ns->ms;