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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: New driver "sfc" for Solarstorm SFC4000 controller.
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 08:12:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080506081225.637df034.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080506150450.GB2217@solarflare.com>

On Tue, 6 May 2008 16:04:53 +0100 Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:

> > or
> > 
> >  	while (*dma_done != FALCON_STATS_DONE) {
> > 		udelay(1);
> > 		if (++timeout > TIMEOUT)
> > 			goto timeout;
> > 	}
>  
> On some architectures udelay() is defined using inline assembly that is not
> specified as clobbering memory.  So the compiler need not reload *dma_done
> after calling it, and this doesn't work.

So pop a cpu_relax() in there as the document describes?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-06 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200804301925.m3UJPc72001651@hera.kernel.org>
2008-05-01 19:08 ` New driver "sfc" for Solarstorm SFC4000 controller Andrew Morton
2008-05-02 16:05   ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-02 18:09     ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 12:50       ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-06 14:24         ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 15:04           ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-06 15:12             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-05-06 15:40               ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-07 17:55         ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-02 19:10   ` Michael Brown
2008-05-03 20:01     ` Ben Hutchings

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