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bnxt_en: Optimize doorbell write operations for newer chips (reapply).
authorMichael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Mon, 29 May 2017 23:06:08 +0000 (19:06 -0400)
committerBrian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Mon, 8 Oct 2018 16:20:58 +0000 (12:20 -0400)
commit8de5e9962365e8550a8627d8a345a1332157a4fb
tree0ac3c62736ec1ac5eec5b1df6e7f2b3576432905
parent09ebc1261a398ed16f7597b5ce9062f9be90788e
bnxt_en: Optimize doorbell write operations for newer chips (reapply).

Older chips require the doorbells to be written twice, but newer chips
do not.  Add a new common function bnxt_db_write() to write all
doorbells appropriately depending on the chip.  Eliminating the extra
doorbell on newer chips has a significant performance improvement
on pktgen.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 434c975a8fe2f70b70ac09ea5ddd008e0528adfa)
Orabug: 27988326

Signed-off-by: Somasundaram Krishnasamy <somasundaram.krishnasamy@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c

Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c