memory-barriers.txt has been updated as follows:
"When using writel(), a prior wmb() is not needed to guarantee that the
cache coherent memory writes have completed before writing to the MMIO
region."
Remove old IA-64 comments in the code along with unneeded wmb() in front
of writel().
There are places in the code where wmb() has been used as a double barrier
for CPU and IO in place of smp_wmb() and wmb() as an optimization. For
such places, keep the wmb() but replace the following writel() with
writel_relaxed() to have a sequence as
wmb()
writel_relaxed()
mmio_wb()
Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <ok...@codeaurora.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c | 16 +++++-----------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c
index e2b7502..d9f186a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c
@@ -246,12 +246,6 @@ static void igbvf_alloc_rx_buffers(struct igbvf_ring
*rx_ring,
else
i--;
- /* Force memory writes to complete before letting h/w
- * know there are new descriptors to fetch. (Only
- * applicable for weak-ordered memory model archs,
- * such as IA-64).
- */
- wmb();
writel(i, adapter->hw.hw_addr + rx_ring->tail);
}
}
@@ -2289,16 +2283,16 @@ static inline void igbvf_tx_queue_adv(struct
igbvf_adapter *adapter,
}
tx_desc->read.cmd_type_len |= cpu_to_le32(adapter->txd_cmd);
- /* Force memory writes to complete before letting h/w
- * know there are new descriptors to fetch. (Only
- * applicable for weak-ordered memory model archs,
- * such as IA-64).
+
+ /* We use this memory barrier to make certain all of the
+ * status bits have been updated before next_to_watch is
+ * written.
*/
wmb();
tx_ring->buffer_info[first].next_to_watch = tx_desc;
tx_ring->next_to_use = i;
- writel(i, adapter->hw.hw_addr + tx_ring->tail);
+ writel_relaxed(i, adapter->hw.hw_addr + tx_ring->tail);
/* we need this if more than one processor can write to our tail
* at a time, it synchronizes IO on IA64/Altix systems
*/
--
2.7.4
