[PATCH v5 3/5] bnx2x: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri Mar 23 10:16:56 PDT 2018


From: Sinan Kaya <okaya at codeaurora.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:13:46 -0400

> We have decided to drop a similar patch on Infiniband due to incorrect
> usage of barrier(). If you feel strongly about it, I can remove the
> DOORBELL change.

Either remove the DOORBELL change or properly adjust the barrier() to
be a wmb().

Be sure to mention this in the commit message, explicitly.

Thank you.



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