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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/7] RDMA/qedr: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:20:24PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> Code includes wmb() followed by writel() in multiple places. 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.
>
> Since code already has an explicit barrier call, changing writel() to
> writel_relaxed().
>
> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
> Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
> drivers/infiniband/hw/qedr/verbs.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied to RDMA for-next

Thanks,
Jason

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