Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:16:14 -0400 | From | Keith Busch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] nvme power saving |
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 02:33:36PM -0700, J Freyensee wrote: > ...and some SSDs don't even support this feature yet, so the number of > different NVMe devices available to test initially will most likely be > small (like the Fultondales I have, all I could check is to see if the > code broke anything if the device did not have this power-save > feature). > > I agree with Jens, makes a lot of sense to start with this feature > 'off'. > > To 'advertise' the feature, maybe make the feature a new selection in > Kconfig? Example, initially make it "EXPERIMENTAL", and later when > more devices implement this feature it can be integrated more tightly > into the NVMe solution and default to on.
Should we just leave the kernel out of this then? I bet we could script this feature in user space.
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