Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:51:59 -0600 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] infiniband: cxgb4: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs |
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:47:46PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote: > Code includes wmb() followed by writel(). 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> > drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/t4.h | 14 +++++++------- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/t4.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/t4.h > index 8369c7c..6e5658a 100644 > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/t4.h > @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ static inline void pio_copy(u64 __iomem *dst, u64 *src) > int count = 8; > > while (count) { > - writeq(*src, dst); > + writeq_relaxed(*src, dst); > src++; > dst++; > count--;
This is another case where writes can be re-ordered.. IIRC dst is WC BAR memory, so the NIC should tolerate re-ordering, but Steve will have to ack this.
Jason
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