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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
To: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	sulrich@codeaurora.org, Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v6 7/7] ixgbevf: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:31:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgT0UeAJOdvqXfRw1xF+LnpGo3K7NQt_3DcJGUkiPMF+O8PTg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf6191c0-07cc-226b-d780-f488a0d7c779@codeaurora.org>

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:27 AM, Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> On 3/23/2018 2:25 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>>> +               /* We need this if more than one processor can write to our tail
>>> +                * at a time, it synchronizes IO on IA64/Altix systems
>>> +                */
>>> +               mmiowb();
>>>         }
>> The mmiowb shouldn't be needed for Rx. Only one CPU will be running
>> NAPI for the queue and we will synchronize this with a full writel
>> anyway when we re-enable the interrupts.
>>
>
> OK. I can fix this on the next version. I did a blanket search and replace for
> my writel_relaxed() changes as I don't know the code well enough.
>
> Please point me to the redundant ones.

So from what I can tell only this file and i40e needed any additional
mmiowb calls added. The rest are not needed.

- Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-23 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1521829277-9398-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org>
2018-03-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] i40e/i40evf: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs Sinan Kaya
2018-03-23 18:30   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Alexander Duyck
2018-03-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v6 2/7] ixgbe: eliminate " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] igbvf: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] igb: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v6 5/7] fm10k: Eliminate " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] ixgbevf: keep writel() closer to wmb() Sinan Kaya
2018-03-23 18:21 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] ixgbevf: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs Sinan Kaya
2018-03-23 18:25   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Alexander Duyck
2018-03-23 18:27     ` Sinan Kaya
2018-03-23 18:31       ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
2018-03-23 18:45         ` Sinan Kaya

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