[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v3 09/18] fm10k: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

[Sinan Kaya]

On 3/16/2018 12:30 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Sinan Kaya <okaya at codeaurora.org> 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 at codeaurora.org>
> 
> You can update the writel call in fm10k_tx_map as well.
> 
> Of the drivers updated in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/* it looks like
> this is the only one that still requires any additional changes.

will do. thanks for the feedback.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - Alex
> 


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Sinan Kaya
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