Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v6 7/7] ixgbevf: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs

[Sinan Kaya]

On 3/23/2018 2:25 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> +               /* We need this if more than one processor can write to our tail
>> +                * at a time, it synchronizes IO on IA64/Altix systems
>> +                */
>> +               mmiowb();
>>         }
> The mmiowb shouldn't be needed for Rx. Only one CPU will be running
> NAPI for the queue and we will synchronize this with a full writel
> anyway when we re-enable the interrupts.
> 

OK. I can fix this on the next version. I did a blanket search and replace for
my writel_relaxed() changes as I don't know the code well enough. 

Please point me to the redundant ones.

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Sinan Kaya
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