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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>,
	Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>,
	Geetha sowjanya <gakula@marvell.com>,
	Christina Jacob <cjacob@marvell.com>,
	Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@marvell.com>,
	Aleksey Makarov <amakarov@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/17] octeontx2-pf: Mailbox communication with AF
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 06:14:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200123061440.171e93f6@cakuba> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+sq2Ce7nFbPu33Cu5YwgfEdfjOSWQwA1nijjtF7KKBYSph1TQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:57:22 +0530, Sunil Kovvuri wrote:
> > I'm slightly concerned about the use of non-iomem helpers like memset
> > and memcpy on what I understand to be IOMEM, and the lack of memory
> > barriers. But then again, I don't know much about iomem_wc(), is this
> > code definitely correct from memory ordering perspective?
> > (The memory barrier in otx2_mbox_msg_send() should probably be just
> > wmb(), syncing with HW is unrelated with SMP.)  
> 
> The mailbox region is a normal memory which is exposed to two devices
> via PCI BARs.
> And the writeq() call (to trigger IRQ) inside otx2_mbox_msg_send() has a wmb().

Oka, fine, if it works it works, I guess.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-23 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-21 13:21 [PATCH v4 00/17] octeontx2-pf: Add network driver for physical function sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 01/17] octeontx2-pf: Add Marvell OcteonTX2 NIC driver sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 16:00   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 02/17] octeontx2-pf: Mailbox communication with AF sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 16:00   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-22 19:27     ` Sunil Kovvuri
2020-01-23 14:14       ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2020-01-24  8:33   ` Maciej Fijalkowski
2020-01-24 17:15     ` Sunil Kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 03/17] octeontx2-pf: Attach NIX and NPA block LFs sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 16:00   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-22 19:27     ` Sunil Kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 04/17] octeontx2-pf: Initialize and config queues sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 16:00   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-22 19:29     ` Sunil Kovvuri
2020-01-23 14:20       ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-24 11:21         ` Sunil Kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 05/17] octeontx2-pf: Setup interrupts and NAPI handler sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 06/17] octeontx2-pf: Receive packet handling support sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 16:33   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-22 19:34     ` Sunil Kovvuri
2020-01-24 10:14   ` Maciej Fijalkowski
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 07/17] octeontx2-pf: Add packet transmission support sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 16:54   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-22 19:50     ` Sunil Kovvuri
2020-01-23 14:24       ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 08/17] octeontx2-pf: Register and handle link notifications sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 09/17] octeontx2-pf: MTU, MAC and RX mode config support sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 10/17] octeontx2-pf: Error handling support sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 11/17] octeontx2-pf: Receive side scaling support sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 12/17] octeontx2-pf: TCP segmentation offload support sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 13/17] octeontx2-pf: Add ndo_get_stats64 sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 14/17] octeontx2-pf: Add basic ethtool support sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 15/17] octeontx2-pf: ethtool RSS config support sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 16/17] Documentation: net: octeontx2: Add RVU HW and drivers overview sunil.kovvuri
2020-01-21 13:21 ` [PATCH v4 17/17] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Marvell OcteonTX2 Physical Function driver sunil.kovvuri

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