On 2020-07-15 11:34, Avi Shchislowski wrote: > My name is Avi Shchislowski, I am managing the WDC's Linux Host R&D team in > which Avri is a member of. > As the review process of HPB is progressing very constructively, we are > getting more and more requests from OEMs, Inquiring about HPB in general, and > host control mode in particular. > > Their main concern is that HPB will make it to 5.9 merge window, but the host > control mode patches will not. > Thus, because of recent Google's GKI, the next Android LTS might not include > HPB with host control mode. > > Aside of those requests, initial host control mode testing are showing > promising prospective with respect of performance gain. > > What would be, in your opinion, the best policy that host control mode is > included in next Android LTS?
Hi Avi, Are you perhaps referring to the HPB patch series that has already been posted? Although I'm not sure of this, I think that the SCSI maintainer expects more Reviewed-by: and Tested-by: tags. Has anyone from WDC already taken the time to review and/or test this patch series? Thanks, Bart.
