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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/cxgb4vf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/cxgb4vf_main.c
index ac7a150c54e9..2b85b874fd0d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/cxgb4vf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/cxgb4vf_main.c
@@ -2888,6 +2888,24 @@ static int cxgb4vf_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
*/
adapter->name = pci_name(pdev);
adapter->msg_enable = DFLT_MSG_ENABLE;
+
+ /* If possible, we use PCIe Relaxed Ordering Attribute to deliver
+ * Ingress Packet Data to Free List Buffers in order to allow for
+ * chipset performance optimizations between the Root Complex and
+ * Memory Controllers. (Messages to the associated Ingress Queue
+ * notifying new Packet Placement in the Free Lists Buffers will be
+ * send without the Relaxed Ordering Attribute thus guaranteeing that
+ * all preceding PCIe Transaction Layer Packets will be processed
+ * first.) But some Root Complexes have various issues with Upstream
+ * Transaction Layer Packets with the Relaxed Ordering Attribute set.
+ * The PCIe devices which under the Root Complexes will be cleared the
+ * Relaxed Ordering bit in the configuration space, So we check our
+ * PCIe configuration space to see if it's flagged with advice against
+ * using Relaxed Ordering.
+ */
+ if (!pcie_relaxed_ordering_enabled(pdev))
+ adapter->flags |= ROOT_NO_RELAXED_ORDERING;
+
err = adap_init0(adapter);
if (err)
goto err_unmap_bar;
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