On Thu, 2018-01-25 at 11:27 +0800, jianchao.wang wrote: > Hi Tariq > > On 01/22/2018 10:12 AM, jianchao.wang wrote: > > > > On 19/01/2018 5:49 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2018-01-19 at 23:16 +0800, jianchao.wang wrote: > > > > > > Hi Tariq > > > > > > > > > > > > Very sad that the crash was reproduced again after applied the patch. > > > > > > Memory barriers vary for different Archs, can you please share more details regarding arch and repro steps? > > The hardware is HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9/ProLiant DL380 Gen9, BIOS P89 12/27/2015 > > The xen is installed. The crash occurred in DOM0. > > Regarding to the repro steps, it is a customer's test which does heavy disk I/O over NFS storage without any guest. > > > > What is the finial suggestion on this ? > If use wmb there, is the performance pulled down ? Since https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=dad42c3038a59d27fced28ee4ec1d4a891b28155 we batch allocations, so mlx4_en_refill_rx_buffers() is not called that often. I doubt the additional wmb() will have serious impact there. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
