[PATCH v2 1/6] i40e/i40evf: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

Sinan Kaya
2018-03-16T01:04:51Z

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@codeaurora.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 8 ++++----
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
index e554aa6cf..9455869 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ static int i40e_program_fdir_filter(struct i40e_fdir_filter *fdir_data,
/* Mark the data descriptor to be watched */
first->next_to_watch = tx_desc;

- writel(tx_ring->next_to_use, tx_ring->tail);
+ writel_relaxed(tx_ring->next_to_use, tx_ring->tail);
return 0;

dma_fail:
@@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ static inline void i40e_release_rx_desc(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring, u32 val)
* such as IA-64).
*/
wmb();
- writel(val, rx_ring->tail);
+ writel_relaxed(val, rx_ring->tail);
}

/**
@@ -2258,7 +2258,7 @@ static int i40e_clean_rx_irq(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring, int budget)
*/
wmb();

- writel(xdp_ring->next_to_use, xdp_ring->tail);
+ writel_relaxed(xdp_ring->next_to_use, xdp_ring->tail);
}

rx_ring->skb = skb;
@@ -3286,7 +3286,7 @@ static inline int i40e_tx_map(struct i40e_ring *tx_ring, struct sk_buff *skb,

/* notify HW of packet */
if (netif_xmit_stopped(txring_txq(tx_ring)) || !skb->xmit_more) {
- writel(i, tx_ring->tail);
+ writel_relaxed(i, tx_ring->tail);

/* we need this if more than one processor can write to our tail
* at a time, it synchronizes IO on IA64/Altix systems
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
index 357d605..56eea20 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ static inline void i40e_release_rx_desc(struct i40e_ring *rx_ring, u32 val)
* such as IA-64).
*/
wmb();
- writel(val, rx_ring->tail);
+ writel_relaxed(val, rx_ring->tail);
}

/**
@@ -2243,7 +2243,7 @@ static inline void i40evf_tx_map(struct i40e_ring *tx_ring, struct sk_buff *skb,

/* notify HW of packet */
if (netif_xmit_stopped(txring_txq(tx_ring)) || !skb->xmit_more) {
- writel(i, tx_ring->tail);
+ writel_relaxed(i, tx_ring->tail);