From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754755AbeCPQRN (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:17:13 -0400 Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:39194 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934637AbeCPQQy (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:16:54 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 smtp.codeaurora.org 78C38603AF Authentication-Results: pdx-caf-mail.web.codeaurora.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=codeaurora.org Authentication-Results: pdx-caf-mail.web.codeaurora.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=okaya@codeaurora.org From: Sinan Kaya To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, timur@codeaurora.org, sulrich@codeaurora.org Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Sinan Kaya , Jeff Kirsher , intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v3 06/18] ixgbevf: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:16:19 -0400 Message-Id: <1521216991-28706-7-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1521216991-28706-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> References: <1521216991-28706-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c index 6bf778a..774b2a6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c @@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ static void ixgbevf_alloc_rx_buffers(struct ixgbevf_ring *rx_ring, * such as IA-64). */ wmb(); - writel(i, rx_ring->tail); + writel_relaxed(i, rx_ring->tail); } } @@ -3644,7 +3644,7 @@ static void ixgbevf_tx_map(struct ixgbevf_ring *tx_ring, tx_ring->next_to_use = i; /* notify HW of packet */ - writel(i, tx_ring->tail); + writel_relaxed(i, tx_ring->tail); return; dma_error: -- 2.7.4