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From: "Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	<andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/hns3: support Tx push quick doorbell to improve perf
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 11:46:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <af94bb20-d371-a1d9-bc00-ef182f79f470@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210614193737.39f5151c@hermes.local>

Hi, Stephen,
Volatile is used here to prevent compiler optimization (deleting the reg
write operation).
By the way, this is an initialization process and does not involve
multi-thread synchronization.
Therefore no need to use the barrier.

在 2021/6/15 10:37, Stephen Hemminger 写道:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:34:29 +0800
> "Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com> wrote:
> 
>> +void
>> +hns3_tx_push_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>> +{
>> +	struct hns3_hw *hw = HNS3_DEV_PRIVATE_TO_HW(dev->data->dev_private);
>> +	volatile uint32_t *reg;
>> +	uint32_t val;
>> +
>> +	if (!hns3_dev_tx_push_supported(hw))
>> +		return;
>> +
>> +	reg = (volatile uint32_t *)hns3_tx_push_get_queue_tail_reg(dev, 0);
> 
> Better to use proper barrier function than using volatile.
> .
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-15  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-13  1:42 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Min Hu (Connor)
2021-06-13  1:42 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-06-14 14:35   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-06-15  1:35     ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-06-15  1:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Min Hu (Connor)
2021-06-15  2:36     ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-06-15  2:37     ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-06-15  3:46       ` Min Hu (Connor) [this message]
2021-06-17 15:18     ` Andrew Rybchenko

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