memory-barriers.txt has been updated as follows: "When using writel(), a prior wmb() is not needed to guarantee that the cache coherent memory writes have completed before writing to the MMIO region." Remove old IA-64 comments in the code along with unneeded wmb() in front of writel(). There are places in the code where wmb() has been used as a double barrier for CPU and IO in place of smp_wmb() and wmb() as an optimization. For such places, keep the wmb() but replace the following writel() with writel_relaxed() to have a sequence as wmb() writel_relaxed() mmio_wb() Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c | 15 ++------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c index df86070..41e3aaa 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c @@ -172,13 +172,6 @@ void fm10k_alloc_rx_buffers(struct fm10k_ring *rx_ring, u16 cleaned_count) /* update next to alloc since we have filled the ring */ rx_ring->next_to_alloc = i; - /* Force memory writes to complete before letting h/w - * know there are new descriptors to fetch. (Only - * applicable for weak-ordered memory model archs, - * such as IA-64). - */ - wmb(); - /* notify hardware of new descriptors */ writel(i, rx_ring->tail); } @@ -1036,11 +1029,7 @@ static void fm10k_tx_map(struct fm10k_ring *tx_ring, /* record SW timestamp if HW timestamp is not available */ skb_tx_timestamp(first->skb); - /* Force memory writes to complete before letting h/w know there - * are new descriptors to fetch. (Only applicable for weak-ordered - * memory model archs, such as IA-64). - * - * We also need this memory barrier to make certain all of the + /* We need this memory barrier to make certain all of the * status bits have been updated before next_to_watch is written. */ wmb(); @@ -1055,7 +1044,7 @@ 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 -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html