linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 5/5] bnxt_en: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

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Message-Id: <1521738603-23596-6-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org>
Date:   Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:10:02 -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>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 5/5] bnxt_en: 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.

Create a new wrapper function with relaxed write operator. Use the new
wrapper when a write is following a wmb().

Since code already has an explicit barrier call, changing writel() to
writel_relaxed().

Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
index 1500243..befb538 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
@@ -1922,7 +1922,7 @@ static int bnxt_poll_work(struct bnxt *bp, struct bnxt_napi *bnapi, int budget)
 		/* Sync BD data before updating doorbell */
 		wmb();
 
-		bnxt_db_write(bp, db, DB_KEY_TX | prod);
+		bnxt_db_write_relaxed(bp, db, DB_KEY_TX | prod);
 	}
 
 	cpr->cp_raw_cons = raw_cons;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h
index 1989c47..5e453b9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h
@@ -1401,6 +1401,15 @@ static inline u32 bnxt_tx_avail(struct bnxt *bp, struct bnxt_tx_ring_info *txr)
 		((txr->tx_prod - txr->tx_cons) & bp->tx_ring_mask);
 }
 
+/* For TX and RX ring doorbells with no ordering guarantee*/
+static inline void bnxt_db_write_relaxed(struct bnxt *bp, void __iomem *db,
+					 u32 val)
+{
+	writel_relaxed(val, db);
+	if (bp->flags & BNXT_FLAG_DOUBLE_DB)
+		writel_relaxed(val, db);
+}
+
 /* For TX and RX ring doorbells */
 static inline void bnxt_db_write(struct bnxt *bp, void __iomem *db, u32 val)
 {
-- 
2.7.4