linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next V2] net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs

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Message-ID: <20250916122715.GA1086830@nvidia.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:27:15 -0300
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Patrisious Haddad <phaddad@...dia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2] net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test
 reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 12:47:17PM +0300, Patrisious Haddad wrote:

> Using the correct CC flags by itself is sufficient and correct - and I don't
> see other neon users using the ".arch_extension simd" you mentioned , so why
> do you think it is needed here ?

If you do it as Arnd suggests then we don't need a another file,
makefile changes and so on. You can just drop a 5 line inline right
before it is used.

Jason