netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net:add one common config ARCH_WANT_RELAX

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Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:27:36 -0800
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     maowenan <maowenan@...wei.com>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net:add one common config ARCH_WANT_RELAX_ORDER
 to support relax ordering.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:15 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Mao Wenan <maowenan@...wei.com>
> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 13:32:34 +0800
>
>> Relax ordering(RO) is one feature of 82599 NIC, to enable this feature can
>> enhance the performance for some cpu architecure, such as SPARC and so on.
>> Currently it only supports one special cpu architecture(SPARC) in 82599
>> driver to enable RO feature, this is not very common for other cpu architecture
>> which really needs RO feature.
>> This patch add one common config CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_RELAX_ORDER to set RO feature,
>> and should define CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_RELAX_ORDER in sparc Kconfig firstly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mao Wenan <maowenan@...wei.com>
>
> Since no-one has reviewed this patch, and I do not feel comfortable with applying
> it without such review, I am tossing this patch.
>
> If someone eventually reviews it, repost this patch.

Mao,

Go ahead and repost the patch and feel free to add my Reviewed-by.
Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier but I have been getting over the
flu for the last week or so.

- Alex