linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] hisi

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Message-ID: <yq1in5a8xwp.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:05:10 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Cc:     <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] hisi_sas: Some misc patches


John,

> This patchset introduces some misc patches, generally more minor in
> importance.
>
> However there is a patch to add a CPU barrier to the delivery path for
> each hw version. We only saw this issue on v3 hw in hip08 chipset,
> where the host CPU exhibits a looser memory model than in
> predecessors, and software must enforce SMP coherency.

Applied to 4.19/scsi-queue, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering