Re: What is synchronizing MMIO-writes on a shared UAR?

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On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 08:07:43PM -0500, Rohit Zambre wrote:

> the different bfregs. However, the Mellanox PRM states that doorbells
> to the same UAR page must be serialized.

This seems like a nonsense statement to me. doorbell rings are
indivisible 64 bit writes, there is no concept of serialization of
those writes to a PCI-E device.

> Here is the doorbell ringing code from MOFED-4.1
> 
>     case MLX5_DB_METHOD_DEDIC_BF:
>         /* The QP has dedicated blue-flame */

But blue flame writes are 8 64 bit bytes and have to be serialized to
work properly.

Jason
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