Re: [PATCH 9/9] nvme: add support for streams and directives

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On Jun 26, 2017, at 7:56 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 06/26/2017 03:59 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Looks mostly good,
>> 
>> but two nit-picks:
>> 
>> - can we keep a module option to disable streams, or in fact for
>>   now maybe to explicitly enable it?  I expect this to be interesting
>>   at least for the first devices that implement it.  Also given that
>>   it needs to be explicitly enabled I would expect some overhead of
>>   just enabling it when never used
> 
> Fine with me, I can add the 'streams' parameter back, but just default
> it to false.

Better would be a parameter to set the default streams count, 0 by default.

>> - do we even need the < 4 streams fallback now that they are global
>>   instead of per-ns instead of just disabling the feature for now?
> 
> Maybe the device only supports 2? or 3?
> 
> --
> Jens Axboe
> 


Cheers, Andreas





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