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From: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ucc_geth: Rework the TX logic.
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:16:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a27d3730903310116r4d8602b8y41e466801bbb8d3e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D0FFBB.7000009@freescale.com>

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> wrote=
:
> Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>>
>> gianfar does not seem to use in_/out_ functions for the BDs. Works just
>> fine that too it seems.
>
> It does now that it has explicit barriers in a few places. =C2=A0Before t=
hey were
> added, it would sometimes fail under load. =C2=A0That was due to a compil=
er
> reordering, but CPU reordering was possible as well.

I noticed that in gianfar these memory access is not protected by
"volatile".  Can this be the reason why the compiler did some unwanted
optimization?

- Leo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-31  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-26 17:44 [PATCH] ucc_geth: Rework the TX logic Joakim Tjernlund
2009-03-26 18:03 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-03-26 18:26   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-03-27  9:45 ` Li Yang
2009-03-27 10:23   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-03-27 10:39     ` Li Yang
2009-03-27 11:39       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-03-27 13:26     ` Scott Wood
2009-03-30 16:38       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-03-30 17:22         ` Scott Wood
2009-03-30 17:34           ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-03-30 17:45             ` Scott Wood
2009-03-30 18:42               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-03-30 19:32                 ` Scott Wood
2009-03-31  9:07                   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-03-31 10:58                     ` Li Yang
2009-03-31 14:37                     ` Scott Wood
2009-03-31  8:16           ` Li Yang [this message]

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