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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
	pabeni@redhat.com, alexander.duyck@gmail.com,
	hkallweit1@gmail.com, andrew@lunn.ch, willemb@google.com,
	michael.chan@broadcom.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
	anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 7/7] net: piggy back on the memory barrier in bql when waking queues
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 17:41:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230406174140.36930b15@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZC52VRfUOOObx2fw@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 15:35:49 +0800 Herbert Xu wrote:
> Minor nit, I would write this as
> 
> 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BQL))
> 		netdev_tx_completed_queue(dev_queue, pkts, bytes);
> 	else if (bytes)
> 		smp_mb();

Will do!

> Actually, why is this checking bytes while the caller is checking
> pkts? Do we need to check them at all? If pkts/bytes is commonly
> non-zero, then we should just do a barrier unconditionally and make
> the uncommon path pay the penalty.

I wanted to keep the same semantics as netdev_tx_completed_queue()
which only barriers if (bytes). Not in the least to make it obvious
to someone looking at the code of netdev_txq_completed_mb() (and not
the comment above it) that it doesn't _always_ put a barrier in.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-07  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-05 22:31 [PATCH net-next v3 0/7] net: lockless stop/wake combo macros Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-05 22:31 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/7] docs: net: reformat driver.rst from a list to sections Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-05 22:31 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/7] docs: net: move the probe and open/close sections of driver.rst up Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-05 22:31 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/7] docs: net: use C syntax highlight in driver.rst Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-05 22:31 ` [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] net: provide macros for commonly copied lockless queue stop/wake code Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-06  7:22   ` Herbert Xu
2023-04-05 22:31 ` [PATCH net-next v3 5/7] ixgbe: use new queue try_stop/try_wake macros Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-05 22:31 ` [PATCH net-next v3 6/7] bnxt: " Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-05 22:31 ` [PATCH net-next v3 7/7] net: piggy back on the memory barrier in bql when waking queues Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-06  7:35   ` Herbert Xu
2023-04-07  0:41     ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-04-12  6:06       ` Herbert Xu
2023-04-12 13:54         ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-13  2:31           ` Herbert Xu

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