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From: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: nd@arm.com, david.marchand@redhat.com, thomas@monjalon.net,
	rasland@mellanox.com, drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	bruce.richardson@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com,
	matan@mellanox.com, shahafs@mellanox.com,
	viacheslavo@mellanox.com, jerinj@marvell.com,
	Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com, ruifeng.wang@arm.com,
	phil.yang@arm.com, joyce.kong@arm.com, steve.capper@arm.com
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v1 4/6] net/mlx5: add descriptive comment for a barrier
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:38:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200213123854.203566-5-gavin.hu@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200213123854.203566-1-gavin.hu@arm.com>

The barrier is not required or can be moved down if HW waits for the
doorbell ring to execute the WQE.

This is not the case as HW can start executing the WQE until it gets the
ownership(passed by SW writing the doorbell record).

Add a decriptive comment for this HW specific behavior.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.h b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.h
index c672af4c4..d32c4e430 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.h
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.h
@@ -655,6 +655,11 @@ mlx5_tx_dbrec_cond_wmb(struct mlx5_txq_data *txq, volatile struct mlx5_wqe *wqe,
 	uint64_t *dst = MLX5_TX_BFREG(txq);
 	volatile uint64_t *src = ((volatile uint64_t *)wqe);
 
+	/* The ownership of WQE is passed to HW by updating the doorbell
+	 * record. Once WQE ownership has been passed to the HCA, HW can
+	 * execute the WQE. The barrier is to ensure the WQE are visible
+	 * to HW before HW execute it.
+	 */
 	rte_cio_wmb();
 	*txq->qp_db = rte_cpu_to_be_32(txq->wqe_ci);
 	/* Ensure ordering between DB record and BF copy. */
-- 
2.17.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-13 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-13 12:38 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v1 0/6] barrier fix and optimization for mlx5 on aarch64 Gavin Hu
2020-02-13 12:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v1 1/6] net/mlx5: relax the barrier for UAR write Gavin Hu
2020-02-13 12:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v1 2/6] net/mlx5: use cio barrier before the BF WQE Gavin Hu
2020-02-13 12:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v1 3/6] net/mlx5: add missing barrier Gavin Hu
2020-02-13 12:38 ` Gavin Hu [this message]
2020-02-13 12:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v1 5/6] net/mlx5: non-cacheable mapping defaulted for aarch64 Gavin Hu
2020-02-13 12:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v1 6/6] net/mlx5: relaxed ordering for multi-packet RQ buffer refcnt Gavin Hu
2020-04-10 16:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 0/7] introduce new barrier class and use it for mlx5 PMD Gavin Hu
2020-04-10 17:20   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-04-11  3:46     ` Gavin Hu
2020-04-13  9:51       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-04-13 16:46         ` Gavin Hu
2020-05-11 18:06   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC] eal: adjust barriers for IO on Armv8-a Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-05-12  6:18     ` Ruifeng Wang
2020-05-12  6:42       ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-12  8:02         ` Ruifeng Wang
2020-05-12  8:28           ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-12 21:44           ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-05-13 14:49             ` Jerin Jacob
2020-05-14  1:02               ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-27 19:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-27 19:25     ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-06-30  5:13       ` Jerin Jacob
2020-07-03 18:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] " Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-03 18:57     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/3] doc: update armv8-a IO barrier changes Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-05  0:57       ` Jerin Jacob
2020-07-03 18:57     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: update deprecation of CIO barrier APIs Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-05  0:57       ` Jerin Jacob
2020-07-07 20:19       ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-07-08 11:05       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-07-06 23:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] eal: adjust barriers for IO on Armv8-a Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-06 23:43     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] doc: update armv8-a IO barrier changes Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-07  8:36       ` David Marchand
2020-07-07 18:37         ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-06 23:43     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/3] doc: update deprecation of CIO barrier APIs Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-07  8:39       ` David Marchand
2020-07-07 20:14       ` David Christensen
2020-07-08 11:49       ` David Marchand
2020-04-10 16:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 1/7] eal: introduce new class of barriers for DMA use cases Gavin Hu
2020-04-10 16:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 2/7] net/mlx5: dmb for immediate doorbell ring on aarch64 Gavin Hu
2020-04-10 16:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 3/7] net/mlx5: relax barrier to order UAR writes " Gavin Hu
2020-04-10 16:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 4/7] net/mlx5: relax barrier for aarch64 Gavin Hu
2020-04-10 16:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 5/7] net/mlx5: add descriptive comment for a barrier Gavin Hu
2020-04-10 16:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 6/7] net/mlx5: relax ordering for multi-packet RQ buffer refcnt Gavin Hu
2020-06-23  8:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/mlx5: relaxed " Phil Yang
2020-07-13  3:02     ` Phil Yang
2020-07-20 23:21       ` Alexander Kozyrev
2020-07-21  1:55         ` Phil Yang
2020-07-21  3:58           ` Alexander Kozyrev
2020-07-21  4:03             ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-21  4:11               ` Alexander Kozyrev
2020-07-22 12:06                 ` Phil Yang
2020-07-23  4:47         ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-23  6:11           ` Phil Yang
2020-07-23 16:53             ` Alexander Kozyrev
2020-07-27 14:52               ` Phil Yang
2020-08-06  2:43                 ` Alexander Kozyrev
2020-08-11  5:20                   ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-09-02 21:52                     ` Alexander Kozyrev
2020-09-03  2:55                       ` Phil Yang
2020-09-09 13:29                         ` Alexander Kozyrev
2020-09-10  1:34                           ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-09-03  2:53     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Phil Yang
2020-09-10  1:30       ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-09-10  1:36         ` Alexander Kozyrev
2020-09-29 15:22           ` Phil Yang
2020-09-30 12:44             ` Slava Ovsiienko
2020-09-30 12:52               ` Raslan Darawsheh
2020-09-30 13:57       ` Raslan Darawsheh
2020-04-10 16:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v2 7/7] doc: clarify one configuration in mlx5 guide Gavin Hu

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