Quoting Chris Wilson (2018-05-11 13:11:47)

> The original switch to use CSB from the HWSP was plagued by the effort

s/effort/effect/

> of read ordering on VT-d; we would read the WRITE pointer from the HWSP
> before it had completed writing the CSB contents. The mystery comes down
> to the lack of rmb() for correct ordering with respect to the writes
> from HW, and with that resolved we can remove the VT-d special casing.
-Chris
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