[PATCH 5/7] igb: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

From: Sinan Kaya
Date: Tue Mar 13 2018 - 23:21:52 EST


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>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index b88fae7..ba8ccb5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -8072,7 +8072,7 @@ void igb_alloc_rx_buffers(struct igb_ring *rx_ring, u16 cleaned_count)
* such as IA-64).
*/
wmb();
- writel(i, rx_ring->tail);
+ writel_relaxed(i, rx_ring->tail);
}
}

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2.7.4