[PATCH v7 0/7] netdev: intel: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

[Sinan Kaya]

On 3/27/2018 10:04 AM, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Double sorry now.
>>
>> I don't know if you have been following "RFC on writel and writel_relaxed" thread
>> or not but there are some new developments about wmb() requirement. 
> 
> Just out of interest: Where can this thread be found?

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg62570.html

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10309913/


> 
>>
>> Basically, wmb() should never be used before writel() as writel() seem to
>> provide coherency and observability guarantee.
>>
> 
> AFAIU memory-barriers.txt writel() only guarantees correct order of accesses to
> IO-memory not RAM vs. IO-memory (this may be the case for some architectures 
> where the writel() implementation contains a wmb() but not for all).
> For the RAM vs. IO-memory case at least a a wmb()/rmb() has to be used. 
> Is this not correct? 

We are being told that if you use writel(), then you don't need a wmb() on
all architectures.

Jason is seeking behavior clarification for write combined buffers.

> 
> Regards,
> Lino
> 


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