Re: [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
> 
> 
> 
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> > From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Gavin Hu
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> Yinan
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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...@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.
> 
> Otherwise
> Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zh...@intel.com>
>