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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 11:49:51 +0000
From: "Bshara, Saeed" <saeedb@...zon.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: AWS ENA: Flush WCBs before writing new SQ tail
to doorbell
On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 12:22 +0200, Liran Alon wrote:
> Hi Saeed,
>
> If I understand correctly, the device is only aware of new
> descriptors once the tail is updated by ena_com_write_sq_doorbell()
> using writel().
> If that’s the case, then writel() guarantees all previous writes to
> WB/UC memory is visible to device before the write done by writel().
device fetches packet only after doorbell notification.
you are right, writel() includes the needed barrier (
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.4.8/source/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt#L1929
)
so indeed we should be ok without any explicit wmb() or dma_wmb().
>
> If device is allowed to fetch packet payload at the moment the
> transmit descriptor is written into device-memory using LLQ,
> then ena_com_write_bounce_buffer_to_dev() should dma_wmb() before
> __iowrite64_copy(). Instead of wmb(). And comment
> is wrong and should be updated accordingly.
> For example, this will optimise x86 to only have a compiler-barrier
> instead of executing a SFENCE.
>
> Can you clarify what is device behaviour on when it is allowed to
> read the packet payload?
> i.e. Is it only after writing to doorbell or is it from the moment
> the transmit descriptor is written to LLQ?
>
> -Liran
>
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