Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] RDMA/qedr: eliminate duplicate barriers on weakly-ordered archs #2

[Sinan Kaya]

On 4/3/2018 3:42 AM, Kalderon, Michal wrote:
> The wmb before writel are used to make sure the
> HW observes the changes in memory before we trigger the doorbell. 

According to Linus, writel() guarantees observability. No extra
barrier is necessary.

https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg225806.html

There shouldn't be any wmb() in drivers unless it is used for a
very well-known reason. 

APIs like readX() and writeX() guarantee observability.

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Sinan Kaya
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