From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: john.dykstra1@gmail.com
Cc: pcnet32@verizon.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, romieu@fr.zoreil.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] pcnet32: Remove pointless memory barriers
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:21:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090429.172131.219368826.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241050583.27131.82.camel@merlyn>
From: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:16:23 -0500
> 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]
ROFL, actually, on-list :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-30 0:21 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
2009-04-30 0:21 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-04-30 0:19 ` David Miller
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