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From: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
To: Don Fry <pcnet32@verizon.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	romieu@fr.zoreil.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] pcnet32: Remove pointless memory barriers
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:16:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241050583.27131.82.camel@merlyn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241050188.18295.13.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:09 -0700, Don Fry wrote:
> After going back to my original NAPI changes, email exchanges today
> with
> Francois and John, and looking through all the architecture
> implementation of mmiowb and locking; I agree that this mmiowb is
> unnecessary since a lock is always released which has all the memory
> barriers needed.

[Off-list]

Don, I didn't mean to create this additional work for you, but I very
much appreciate the help.

  --  John


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-30  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-28 19:07 [PATCH net-next-2.6] pcnet32: Remove pointless memory barriers John Dykstra
2009-04-29  5:16 ` David Miller
2009-04-29 13:48   ` John Dykstra
2009-04-29 17:10     ` Don Fry
2009-04-29 19:07       ` John Dykstra
2009-04-29 22:29       ` Francois Romieu
2009-04-30  0:09 ` Don Fry
2009-04-30  0:16   ` John Dykstra [this message]
2009-04-30  0:21     ` David Miller
2009-04-30  0:19   ` David Miller

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