Re: [PATCH] PCI/ASPM: Enable ASPM for links under VMD domain

2020-09-02 Thread David Fugate
On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 07:56 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > while adding absolutely no value. Basically we have to add a large > chunk of kernel code just to undo silicone/firmware Intel added to > their > platform to make things complicated. I mean it is their platform and > if > they want a

Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme: add emulation for zone-append

2020-08-20 Thread David Fugate
On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 12:45 +0900, Keith Busch wrote: > For the record, the suggestion provided, which you agreed to look > into, > most broadly enables your hardware on Linux and was entirely to your > benefit. Not quite as dramatic as a political conspiracy. > > You later responded with a

Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme: add emulation for zone-append

2020-08-19 Thread David Fugate
On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 15:10 -0700, Keith Busch wrote: > You're the one who left that thread dangling. You offered to have > your > firmware accommodate the Intel sponsored feature that makes your > patch > unnecessary in the first place. Your follow up made no sense and you > have not responded to

Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme: add emulation for zone-append

2020-08-19 Thread David Fugate
On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 13:25 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > It's not required, the driver will function quite fine without it. If > you > want to use ZNS it's required. The NVMe spec does not require Zone Append for ZNS; a *vendor-neutral* Linux driver should not either. > The Linux driver

Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvme: add emulation for zone-append

2020-08-19 Thread David Fugate
On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 07:12 +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 10:59:36AM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote: > > If drive does not support zone-append natively, enable emulation > > using > > regular write. > > Make emulated zone-append cmd write-lock the zone, preventing > >