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From: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
To: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, sulrich@codeaurora.org
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] ixgbevf: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:08:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12150aa0-77ba-878e-31f4-d4f8d6a28ccb@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1520997629-17361-7-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org>

On 3/13/18 10:20 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> +/* Assumes caller has executed a write barrier to order memory and device
> + * requests.
> + */
>   static inline void ixgbevf_write_tail(struct ixgbevf_ring *ring, u32 value)
>   {
> -	writel(value, ring->tail);
> +	writel_relaxed(value, ring->tail);
>   }

Why not put the wmb() in this function, or just get rid of the wmb() in 
the rest of the file and keep this as writel?  That way, you can avoid 
the comment and the risk that comes with it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-14  5:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-14  3:20 [PATCH 1/7] i40e/i40evf: Eliminate " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-14  3:20 ` [PATCH 2/7] ixgbe: eliminate " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-15  1:47   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-14  3:20 ` [PATCH 3/7] RDMA/qedr: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-14  4:12   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-03-14 12:06     ` okaya
2018-03-15 22:23   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-03-14  3:20 ` [PATCH 4/7] igbvf: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-15  1:48   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-14  3:20 ` [PATCH 5/7] igb: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-15  1:50   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-14  3:20 ` [PATCH 6/7] e1000: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-15  1:41   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-15 23:30     ` Sinan Kaya
2018-03-16  0:25       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-16  0:50         ` Sinan Kaya
2018-03-14  3:20 ` [PATCH 7/7] ixgbevf: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-14  5:08   ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2018-03-14 12:13     ` okaya
2018-03-14 21:49       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-14 22:57         ` Sinan Kaya
2018-03-15  1:44           ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-15  2:17             ` Sinan Kaya
2018-03-15 14:32               ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-15 16:21                 ` Sinan Kaya
2018-03-15 16:27                   ` Sinan Kaya
2018-03-15 16:58                     ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-15  1:45   ` Alexander Duyck

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