From: okaya@codeaurora.org (Sinan Kaya)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 00/17] netdev: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:42:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1521513753-7325-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> (raw)
Code includes wmb() followed by writel() in multiple places. 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().
I did a regex search for wmb() followed by writel() in each drivers
directory.
I scrubbed the ones I care about in this series.
I considered "ease of change", "popular usage" and "performance critical
path" as the determining criteria for my filtering.
We used relaxed API heavily on ARM for a long time but
it did not exist on other architectures. For this reason, relaxed
architectures have been paying double penalty in order to use the common
drivers.
Now that relaxed API is present on all architectures, we can go and scrub
all drivers to see what needs to change and what can remain.
We start with mostly used ones and hope to increase the coverage over time.
It will take a while to cover all drivers.
Feel free to apply patches individually.
Changes since v3:
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg641851.html
- group patches together into subsystems net:...
- collect reviewed and tested bys
- scrub barrier()
Sinan Kaya (17):
i40e/i40evf: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
ixgbe: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
igbvf: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
igb: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
ixgbevf: keep writel() closer to wmb()
ixgbevf: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
fm10k: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
drivers: net: cxgb: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered
archs
net: qla3xxx: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
qlcnic: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
bnx2x: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
net: cxgb4/cxgb4vf: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered
archs
net: cxgb3: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
net: qlge: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
bnxt_en: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
qed/qede: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
net: ena: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_com.c | 6 ++++--
drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_eth_com.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h | 9 ++++++++-
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.h | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c | 21 +++++++++++----------
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_sriov.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_vfpf.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h | 11 ++++++++++-
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb/sge.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/adapter.h | 7 +++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/sge.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4.h | 6 ++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c | 13 +++++++------
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sge.c | 12 ++++++------
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/adapter.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/sge.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 8 ++++----
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 8 ++++----
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.h | 5 -----
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed.h | 5 ++++-
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_hw.c | 12 ++++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_hw.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_int.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_l2.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_ll2.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_vf.c | 7 ++++---
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_ethtool.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_fp.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c | 4 ++--
.../net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_83xx_hw.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c | 2 +-
include/linux/qed/qed_if.h | 17 +++++++++++++----
42 files changed, 215 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)
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2.7.4
next reply other threads:[~2018-03-20 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-20 2:42 Sinan Kaya [this message]
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 01/17] i40e/i40evf: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 02/17] ixgbe: eliminate " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 03/17] igbvf: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 04/17] igb: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 05/17] ixgbevf: keep writel() closer to wmb() Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 06/17] ixgbevf: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 07/17] fm10k: Eliminate " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 08/17] drivers: net: cxgb: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 09/17] net: qla3xxx: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 10/17] qlcnic: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 11/17] bnx2x: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-22 10:10 ` Kalluru, Sudarsana
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 12/17] net: cxgb4/cxgb4vf: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-21 23:03 ` Casey Leedom
2018-03-22 0:00 ` okaya at codeaurora.org
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 13/17] net: cxgb3: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 14/17] net: qlge: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 15/17] bnxt_en: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 16/17] qed/qede: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-20 2:42 ` [PATCH v4 17/17] net: ena: " Sinan Kaya
2018-03-25 12:06 ` Belgazal, Netanel
2018-03-25 13:33 ` okaya at codeaurora.org
2018-03-21 15:56 ` [PATCH v4 00/17] netdev: " David Miller
2018-03-21 19:06 ` Sinan Kaya
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