[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/ppc: remove fix of memory barrier for IBM POWER

[Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>]

>From previous patch description: "to improve performance on PPC64,
use light weight sync instruction instead of sync instruction."

Excerpt from IBM doc [1], section "Memory barrier instructions":
"The second form of the sync instruction is light-weight sync,
or lwsync.
This form is used to control ordering for storage accesses to system
memory only. It does not create a memory barrier for accesses to
device memory."

This patch removes the use of lwsync, so calls to rte_wmb() and
rte_rmb() will provide correct memory barrier to ensure order of
accesses to system memory and device memory.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/systems/articles/powerpc.html

Fixes: d23a6bd04d72 ("eal/ppc: fix memory barrier for IBM POWER")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_atomic.h | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_atomic.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_atomic.h
index ce38350..797381c 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_atomic.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_atomic.h
@@ -63,11 +63,7 @@
  * Guarantees that the STORE operations generated before the barrier
  * occur before the STORE operations generated after.
  */
-#ifdef RTE_ARCH_64
-#define	rte_wmb() asm volatile("lwsync" : : : "memory")
-#else
 #define	rte_wmb() asm volatile("sync" : : : "memory")
-#endif
 
 /**
  * Read memory barrier.
@@ -75,11 +71,7 @@
  * Guarantees that the LOAD operations generated before the barrier
  * occur before the LOAD operations generated after.
  */
-#ifdef RTE_ARCH_64
-#define	rte_rmb() asm volatile("lwsync" : : : "memory")
-#else
 #define	rte_rmb() asm volatile("sync" : : : "memory")
-#endif
 
 #define rte_smp_mb() rte_mb()
 
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