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[v4,07/17] fm10k: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

Message ID 1521513753-7325-8-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org (mailing list archive)
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Sinan Kaya March 20, 2018, 2:42 a.m. UTC 
Code includes wmb() followed by writel(). 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 <okaya@codeaurora.org>
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 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
index 8e12aae..eebef01 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@  void fm10k_alloc_rx_buffers(struct fm10k_ring *rx_ring, u16 cleaned_count)
 		wmb();
 
 		/* notify hardware of new descriptors */
-		writel(i, rx_ring->tail);
+		writel_relaxed(i, rx_ring->tail);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@  static void fm10k_tx_map(struct fm10k_ring *tx_ring,
 
 	/* notify HW of packet */
 	if (netif_xmit_stopped(txring_txq(tx_ring)) || !skb->xmit_more) {
-		writel(i, tx_ring->tail);
+		writel_relaxed(i, tx_ring->tail);
 
 		/* we need this if more than one processor can write to our tail
 		 * at a time, it synchronizes IO on IA64/Altix systems