> On 27 Feb 2019, at 18.14, Igor Konopko <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Current lightnvm and pblk implementation does not care
> about NVMe max data transfer size, which can be smaller
> than 64*K=256K. This patch fixes issues related to that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/lightnvm/core.c      | 9 +++++++--
> drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c | 1 +
> include/linux/lightnvm.h     | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
> index 5f82036fe322..c01f83b8fbaf 100644
> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
> @@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ static int nvm_create_tgt(struct nvm_dev *dev, struct 
> nvm_ioctl_create *create)
>       struct nvm_target *t;
>       struct nvm_tgt_dev *tgt_dev;
>       void *targetdata;
> +     unsigned int mdts;
>       int ret;
> 
>       switch (create->conf.type) {
> @@ -412,8 +413,12 @@ static int nvm_create_tgt(struct nvm_dev *dev, struct 
> nvm_ioctl_create *create)
>       tdisk->private_data = targetdata;
>       tqueue->queuedata = targetdata;
> 
> -     blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(tqueue,
> -                     (dev->geo.csecs >> 9) * NVM_MAX_VLBA);
> +     mdts = (dev->geo.csecs >> 9) * NVM_MAX_VLBA;
> +     if (dev->geo.mdts) {
> +             mdts = min_t(u32, dev->geo.mdts,
> +                             (dev->geo.csecs >> 9) * NVM_MAX_VLBA);
> +     }
> +     blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(tqueue, mdts);
> 
>       set_capacity(tdisk, tt->capacity(targetdata));
>       add_disk(tdisk);
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c b/drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c
> index b759c25c89c8..b88a39a3cbd1 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c
> @@ -991,6 +991,7 @@ int nvme_nvm_register(struct nvme_ns *ns, char 
> *disk_name, int node)
>       geo->csecs = 1 << ns->lba_shift;
>       geo->sos = ns->ms;
>       geo->ext = ns->ext;
> +     geo->mdts = ns->ctrl->max_hw_sectors;
> 
>       dev->q = q;
>       memcpy(dev->name, disk_name, DISK_NAME_LEN);
> diff --git a/include/linux/lightnvm.h b/include/linux/lightnvm.h
> index 5d865a5d5cdc..d3b02708e5f0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/lightnvm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/lightnvm.h
> @@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ struct nvm_geo {
>       u16     csecs;          /* sector size */
>       u16     sos;            /* out-of-band area size */
>       bool    ext;            /* metadata in extended data buffer */
> +     u32     mdts;           /* Max data transfer size*/
> 
>       /* device write constrains */
>       u32     ws_min;         /* minimum write size */
> --
> 2.17.1

I see where you are going with this and I partially agree, but none of
the OCSSD specs define a way to define this parameter. Thus, adding this
behavior taken from NVMe in Linux can break current implementations. Is
this a real life problem for you? Or this is just for NVMe “correctness”?

Javier



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