Re: [PATCH v13 0/3] scsi: ufs: Add Host Performance Booster Support

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Dec 07 2020 - 13:08:38 EST


On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 06:56:23PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 01:40:21PM +0900, Daejun Park wrote:
> > Changelog:
> >
> > v12 -> v13
> > 1. Cleanup codes by comments from Can Guo.
> > 2. Add HPB related descriptor/flag/attributes in sysfs.
> > 3. Change base commit from 5.10/scsi-queue to 5.11/scsi-queue.
>
> What ever happened to this patchset? Did it get merged into a scsi tree
> for 5.11-rc1, or is there something still pending that needs to be done
> on it to make it acceptable?

I think the problem here is not the code, but that the features is
fundamentally a bad idea, and one that so far has not even shown
to help real workloads vs the usual benchmarketing.