On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 11:03:36AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote: > > away. But we also lose integrity protection over the wire, which would > > be unfortunate. > > If the "wire" is only PCIe, I don't see why it matters. What kind of > wire corruption gets undetected by the protocol's encoding and LCRC that > would get caught by the host's CRC payload? The "wire" could be anything. And includes a little more than than than the wire, like the entire host side driver stack and the device data path between the phy and wherever in the stack the PI insert/strip accelerator sits.