On 3/16/2018 5:05 PM, Steve Wise wrote: >> Code includes wmb() followed by writel(). writel() already has a barrier > on >> some architectures like arm64. >> >> This ends up CPU observing two barriers back to back before executing the >> register write. >> >> Since code already has an explicit barrier call, changing writel() to >> writel_relaxed(). >> >> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > NAK - This isn't correct for PowerPC. For PowerPC, writeX_relaxed() is just > writeX(). > > I was just looking at this with Chelsio developers, and they said the > writeX() should be replaced with __raw_writeX(), not writeX_relaxed(), to > get rid of the extra barrier for all architectures. OK. I can do that but isn't the problem at PowerPC adaptation? /* * We don't do relaxed operations yet, at least not with this semantic */ #define readb_relaxed(addr) readb(addr) #define readw_relaxed(addr) readw(addr) #define readl_relaxed(addr) readl(addr) #define readq_relaxed(addr) readq(addr) #define writeb_relaxed(v, addr) writeb(v, addr) #define writew_relaxed(v, addr) writew(v, addr) #define writel_relaxed(v, addr) writel(v, addr) #define writeq_relaxed(v, addr) writeq(v, addr) Why don't we fix the PowerPC's relaxed operators? Is that a bigger task? >From API perspective both __raw_writeX() and writeX_relaxed() are correct. It is just PowerPC doesn't seem the follow the definition yet. -- 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
