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SubjectRe: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v6 7/7] ixgbevf: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs
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On 3/23/2018 2:25 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> + /* We need this if more than one processor can write to our tail
>> + * at a time, it synchronizes IO on IA64/Altix systems
>> + */
>> + mmiowb();
>> }
> The mmiowb shouldn't be needed for Rx. Only one CPU will be running
> NAPI for the queue and we will synchronize this with a full writel
> anyway when we re-enable the interrupts.
>

OK. I can fix this on the next version. I did a blanket search and replace for
my writel_relaxed() changes as I don't know the code well enough.

Please point me to the redundant ones.

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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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