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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 3/5] bnx2x: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
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On 3/23/2018 12:43 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:31:12 -0400
>
>> Sorry, you got me confused now.
>>
>> If you look at the code closer, you'll see this.
>>
>> wmb();
>>
>> txdata->tx_db.data.prod += nbd;
>> barrier();
>>
>> DOORBELL(bp, txdata->cid, txdata->tx_db.raw);
>>
>> and you also asked me to rename DOORBELL to DOORBELL_RELAXED() to make
>> it obvious that we have a relaxed operator inside the macro.
>
> This still doesn't match the stated pattern.

I can certainly update the commit text for this or spin into its own
patch to make it obvious.

>
> wmb();
> /* no other memory or I/O or IOMEM operation */
> writel();
>
> There is a write to a producer index there and then no non-compiler
> barrier or any kind before the writel().
>
> So, in fact, it might really need that implicit writel() barrier here!
>

It could if txdata->tx_db was not a union. There is a data dependency
between txdata->tx_db.data.prod and txdata->tx_db.raw.

So, no reordering.

I can argue that barrier() here is useless in fact.

Anyhow, I'll spin this piece out of this patch so that we pay special
attention with a better description.

--
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.

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