[PATCH v4 5/6] IB/nes: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at ziepe.ca
Tue Mar 20 09:29:33 PDT 2018


On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 11:08:59AM -0500, Sinan Kaya wrote:

> > In this case, I strongly suspect nes really intended to say wmb()
> 
> Should I change barrier() to wmb() or leave it alone? I have no idea if 
> nes is actively being maintained or if it is EOL.

It is dead, and the HW doesn't work on 64 bit machines. Just ignore it
is my advice.

Jason



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