[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] net/i40e: use relaxed and remove duplicate barrier

[Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)]

Hi Qi, 

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> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] net/i40e: use relaxed and remove
> duplicate barrier
> 
> Hi Qi,
> 
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> > From: Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
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> > Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] net/i40e: use relaxed and remove
> > duplicate barrier
> >
> >
> >
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> > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] net/i40e: use relaxed and remove
> > > duplicate barrier
> > >
> > > To guarantee the orderings of successive stores to CIO and MMIO
> memory,
> > a
> > > lighter weight rte_io_wmb [1] can be used instead of rte_wmb, and
> since
> > the
> > > I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE API already has an inclusive rte_io_wmb, this
> explicit
> > call
> > > can be even saved.
> > >
> > > [1]
> http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/
> > > rte_atomic.h#n98
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu at arm.com>
> >
> > Can you also capture the one at the tail of i40e_xmit_pkts?
> Thanks for your review, I will fix this in next version.
I checked again, in this version, the rte_wmb at the tail of i40e_xmit_pkts was already removed
and the following I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE_RELAXED was replaced by  I40E_PCI_REG_WRITE, which has an inclusive rte_io_wmb. 
> >
> > Otherwise
> > Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> >