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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 23:20:22 -0400 From: Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org, timur@...eaurora.org, sulrich@...eaurora.org Cc: linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 1/7] i40e/i40evf: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs Code includes wmb() followed by writel(). writel() already has a barrier on some architectures like arm64. This ends up CPU observing two barriers back to back before executing the register write. Since code already has an explicit barrier call, changing writel() to writel_relaxed(). Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c index e554aa6cf..7028516 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c @@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ static inline void i40e_release_rx_desc(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring, u32 val) * such as IA-64). */ wmb(); - writel(val, rx_ring->tail); + writel_relaxed(val, rx_ring->tail); } /** diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c index 357d605..2d323fc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c @@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ static inline void i40e_release_rx_desc(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring, u32 val) * such as IA-64). */ wmb(); - writel(val, rx_ring->tail); + writel_relaxed(val, rx_ring->tail); } /** -- 2.7.4
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