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/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 23 ++--------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c index afadba9..c17924b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c @@ -1696,12 +1696,6 @@ void ixgbe_alloc_rx_buffers(struct ixgbe_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(); writel(i, rx_ring->tail); } } @@ -2467,10 +2461,6 @@ static int ixgbe_clean_rx_irq(struct ixgbe_q_vector *q_vector, if (xdp_xmit) { struct ixgbe_ring *ring = adapter->xdp_ring[smp_processor_id()]; - /* Force memory writes to complete before letting h/w - * know there are new descriptors to fetch. - */ - wmb(); writel(ring->next_to_use, ring->tail); xdp_do_flush_map(); @@ -8080,12 +8070,7 @@ static int ixgbe_tx_map(struct ixgbe_ring *tx_ring, /* set the timestamp */ first->time_stamp = jiffies; - /* - * 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(); @@ -8102,7 +8087,7 @@ static int ixgbe_tx_map(struct ixgbe_ring *tx_ring, ixgbe_maybe_stop_tx(tx_ring, DESC_NEEDED); 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 @@ -10034,10 +10019,6 @@ static void ixgbe_xdp_flush(struct net_device *dev) if (unlikely(!ring)) return; - /* Force memory writes to complete before letting h/w know there - * are new descriptors to fetch. - */ - wmb(); writel(ring->next_to_use, ring->tail); return; -- 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