On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 09:16:38AM +0000, Soumyadeep Hore wrote:
> Introduced through customer's feedback in their attempt to address some
> bugs this introduces a memory barrier before posting ctlq tail. This
> makes sure memory writes have a chance to take place before HW starts
> messing with the descriptors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Soumyadeep Hore <soumyadeep.h...@intel.com>
> ---

>From the description, it seems that this may be a bugfix patch. Can you
confirm this and whether it should be backported or not. Also, provide a
fixes tag for this.

Thanks,
/Bruce

>  drivers/common/idpf/base/idpf_controlq.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/common/idpf/base/idpf_controlq.c 
> b/drivers/common/idpf/base/idpf_controlq.c
> index 65e5599614..4f47759a4f 100644
> --- a/drivers/common/idpf/base/idpf_controlq.c
> +++ b/drivers/common/idpf/base/idpf_controlq.c
> @@ -604,6 +604,8 @@ int idpf_ctlq_post_rx_buffs(struct idpf_hw *hw, struct 
> idpf_ctlq_info *cq,
>                       /* Wrap to end of end ring since current ntp is 0 */
>                       cq->next_to_post = cq->ring_size - 1;
>  
> +             idpf_wmb();
> +
>               wr32(hw, cq->reg.tail, cq->next_to_post);
>       }
>  
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 

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