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From: okaya@codeaurora.org (Sinan Kaya)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 15:13:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v6] RDMA/qedr: eliminate duplicate barriers on
 weakly-ordered archs #2
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On 3/22/2018 12:30 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> 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().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/qedr/verbs.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qedr/verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qedr/verbs.c
> index 53f00db..d1cf9a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qedr/verbs.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qedr/verbs.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
>  #include <net/ipv6.h>
>  #include <net/udp.h>
>  #include <linux/iommu.h>
> +#include <linux/io-64-nonatomic-hi-lo.h>

what should we do here? change include? drop writeq_relaxed?

>  
>  #include <rdma/ib_verbs.h>
>  #include <rdma/ib_user_verbs.h>
> @@ -860,7 +861,7 @@ static void doorbell_cq(struct qedr_cq *cq, u32 cons, u8 flags)
>  	wmb();
>  	cq->db.data.agg_flags = flags;
>  	cq->db.data.value = cpu_to_le32(cons);
> -	writeq(cq->db.raw, cq->db_addr);
> +	writeq_relaxed(cq->db.raw, cq->db_addr);
>  
>  	/* Make sure write would stick */
>  	mmiowb();
> @@ -3338,7 +3339,7 @@ int qedr_post_recv(struct ib_qp *ibqp, struct ib_recv_wr *wr,
>  
>  		qp->rq.db_data.data.value++;
>  
> -		writel(qp->rq.db_data.raw, qp->rq.db);
> +		writel_relaxed(qp->rq.db_data.raw, qp->rq.db);
>  
>  		/* Make sure write sticks */
>  		mmiowb();
> 


-- 
Sinan Kaya
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.