Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] infiniband: cxgb4: Eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

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On 3/22/2018 9:52 AM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 3/22/2018 9:40 AM, Steve Wise wrote:
>> I think all these iw_cxgb4 changes should be reverted until we really have a
>> plan for multi-platform that works.  
> I know you are looking to have support for PowerPC. 
>
> Isn't this a PowerPC problem? Why penalize other architectures?
>
> Do you see anything wrong with the code itself?

I worry it breaks PPC.

> I started this thread with the PowerPC develoeprs on your request.
> "RFC on writel and writel_relaxed"
>
> They are looking into adding the relaxed API support. Support can come
> in later. Why block this change now?
>
> benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> "I've been wanting to implement the relaxed accessors for a while but
> was battling with this to try to also better support WC, and due to
> other commitments, this somewhat fell down the cracks."
>
> I have seen four different responses on this thread. Since this is an
> architecture change it will take a while to get the semantics right.
> It won't happen in the new few days.

I appreciate you doing this.

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