netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] net/cxgb4: Use new PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:17:28 -0700
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:     Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
Cc:     Casey Leedom <leedom@...lsio.com>, Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Michael Werner <werner@...lsio.com>,
        Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@...lsio.com>,
        Asit K Mallick <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
        Patrick J Cramer <patrick.j.cramer@...el.com>,
        Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>,
        Bob Shaw <Bob.Shaw@....com>, h <l.stach@...gutronix.de>,
        Amir Ancel <amira@...lanox.com>,
        Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@...wei.com>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
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        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
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        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
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        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
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        LinuxArm <linuxarm@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] net/cxgb4: Use new PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING
 flag

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Alexander Duyck
<alexander.duyck@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com> wrote:
>> From: Casey Leedom <leedom@...lsio.com>
>>
>> cxgb4 Ethernet driver now queries PCIe configuration space to determine
>> if it can send TLPs to it with the Relaxed Ordering Attribute set.
>>
>> Remove the enable_pcie_relaxed_ordering() to avoid enable PCIe Capability
>> Device Control[Relaxed Ordering Enable] at probe routine, to make sure
>> the driver will not send the Relaxed Ordering TLPs to the Root Complex which
>> could not deal the Relaxed Ordering TLPs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Casey Leedom <leedom@...lsio.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
>
> Ding,
>
> You can probably just drop this patch. If I am understanding Casey
> correctly just the fact that the relaxed ordering enable bit is
> cleared in the configuration should be enough to do this for the
> device automatically.
>
> - Alex

Actually I take that back. I hadn't caught the most recent parts of
the thread. If this is good for Casey then this works for me.

- Alex