Re: Why removing REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER in LightNVM?

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On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 11:19:09AM +0200, Javier González wrote:
> on the lightnvm I/O path and that has propagated through the code as we
> added more functionality. Can you explain why this is necessary? If I
> can just remove it, it is much easier to do the cleanup.
> 
> I have tested on or HW and all works fine without it.

nvme_alloc_request always sets REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER and that srops
it to stick to the previous behavior.

If you actually want all your lightnvm requests to fail fast you can
remove it.



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