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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/7] e1000: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
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On 3/15/2018 8:25 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> On 3/14/2018 9:41 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>>>> }
>>>>
>>> So you missed the writel in e1000_xmit_frame. You should probably get
>>> that one too while you are doing these updates. The wmb() is in
>>> e1000_tx_queue().
>>>
>>
>> I brought wmb() outside along with the next descriptor assignment to be
>> similar to the rest of the other code.
>>
>> if wmb() and writel() are not visible in the same function, let's not touch
>> the code.
>
> Maybe for e1000 we should just skip the driver entirely. Odds are you
> aren't going to have any e1000 parts running on ARM anyway since most
> of them are legacy PCI or PCI-X parts that were made over 10 years
> ago. Most of your efforts would probably be best spent on igb, igbvf,
> ixgbe, ixgbevf, i40e, i40evf, and fm10k.
>

Sure. I'll drop it.

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Sinan Kaya
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.

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