Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] PCI: Add new PCIe Fabric End Node flag, PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING

From	"Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] PCI: Add new PCIe Fabric End Node flag, PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING
Date	2017-08-09 20:10 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 04:46:07PM +0000, Casey Leedom wrote:
> | From: Raj, Ashok <ashok.raj@intel.com>
> | Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 8:58 AM
> | ...
> | As Casey pointed out in an earlier thread, we choose the heavy hammer
> | approach because there are some that can lead to data-corruption as opposed
> | to perf degradation.
> 
> Careful.  As far as I'm aware, there is no Data Corruption problem
> whatsoever with Intel Root Ports and processing of Transaction Layer Packets
> with and without the Relaxed Ordering Attribute set.

That's right.. no data-corruption on Intel parts :-).. It was with
other vendor. Only performance issue with intel root-ports in the parts
identified by the optimization guide. 

Cheers,
AShok

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[PATCH v9 1/4] PCI: Add new PCIe Fabric End Node flag, PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> - 2017-08-05 09:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] PCI: Add new PCIe Fabric End Node flag,  PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2017-08-09 01:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] PCI: Add new PCIe Fabric End Node flag,  PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING Casey Leedom <leedom@chelsio.com> - 2017-08-09 03:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] PCI: Add new PCIe Fabric End Node flag,  PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2017-08-09 05:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] PCI: Add new PCIe Fabric End Node flag,  PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> - 2017-08-09 14:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] PCI: Add new PCIe Fabric End Node flag,  PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com> - 2017-08-09 18:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] PCI: Add new PCIe Fabric End Node flag,  PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING Casey Leedom <leedom@chelsio.com> - 2017-08-09 18:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] PCI: Add new PCIe Fabric End Node flag,  PCI_DEV_FLAGS_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com> - 2017-08-09 20:10 +0200

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