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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] soc: amazon: al-pos: Introduce Amazon's Annapurna Labs POS driver
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On 9/9/2019 6:16 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 4:11 PM Shenhar, Talel <talel@amazon.com> wrote:
>> On 9/9/2019 4:41 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> In current implementation of v1, I am not doing any read barrier, Hence,
>> using the non-relaxed will add unneeded memory barrier.
>>
>> I have no strong objection moving to the non-relaxed version and have an
>> unneeded memory barrier, as this path is not "hot" one.
> Ok, then please add it.
ok, shall be part of v2
>
>> Beside of avoiding the unneeded memory barrier, I would be happy to keep
>> common behavior for our drivers:
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/irqchip/irq-al-fic.c#L49
>>
>>
>> So what do you think we should go with? relaxed or non-relaxed?
> The al_fic_set_trigger() function is clearly a slow-path and should use the
> non-relaxed functions. In case of al_fic_irq_handler(), the extra barrier
> might introduce a measurable overhead, but at the same time I'm
> not sure if that one is correct without the barrier:
>
> If you have an MSI-type interrupt for notifying a device driver of
> a DMA completion, there might not be any other barrier between
> the arrival of the MSI message and the CPU accessing the data.
> Depending on how strict the hardware implements MSI and how
> the IRQ is chained, this could lead to data corruption.
>
> If the interrupt is only used for level or edge triggered interrupts,
> this is ok since you already need another register read in
> the driver before it can safely access a DMA buffer.
>
> In either case, if you can prove that it's safe to use the relaxed
> version here and you think that it may help, it would be good to
> add a comment explaining the reasoning.
Decided to go with the non-relaxed version as this is not hot path and
likely be more clear to the common reader to have non relaxed version.
>
> Arnd

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