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The hardware offload for NVME commands was created when the FC-NVME standard was setting SGL Descriptor Type to SGL Data Block Descriptor (0h) and SGL Descriptor Sub Type to Address (0h). A late change in NVMe-over-Fabrics obsoleted these values, creating a transport SGL descriptor type with new values to go into these fields. For initial hardware support, in order to be compliant to the spec, use host-supplied cmd IU buffers instead of the adapter generated values. Later hardware will correct this. Add a module parameter to override this offload disablement if looking for lowest latency. This is reasonable as nothing in FC-NVME uses the SQE SGL values. Signed-off-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.