linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 1/7] block: support pi with extended metadata

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Date:   Tue, 01 Feb 2022 23:38:27 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, axboe@...nel.dk, hch@....de,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, colyli@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/7] block: support pi with extended metadata


Keith,

> The nvme spec allows protection information formats with metadata
> extending beyond the pi field.

This may be true but it seems the rationale for the patch in the context
of this series is to enable PI metadata bigger than t10_pi_tuple?

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering