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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 rdma-next] RDMA/mlx5: Enable Relaxed Ordering by default for kernel ULPs
On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 02:52:41PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 02:05:03PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Avihai Horon <avihaih@nvidia.com>
> >
> > Relaxed Ordering is a capability that can only benefit users that support
> > it. All kernel ULPs should support Relaxed Ordering, as they are designed
> > to read data only after observing the CQE and use the DMA API correctly.
> >
> > Hence, implicitly enable Relaxed Ordering by default for kernel ULPs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Avihai Horon <avihaih@nvidia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> > ---
> > Changelog:
> > v2:
> > * Dropped IB/core patch and set RO implicitly in mlx5 exactly like in
> > eth side of mlx5 driver.
>
> This looks great in terms of code changes. But can we please also add a
> patch to document that PCIe relaxed ordering is fine for kernel ULP usage
> somewhere?

Sure, did you have in mind some concrete place? Or will new file in the
Documentation/infiniband/ folder be good enough too?

Thanks

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