From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: romieu@fr.zoreil.com
Cc: o.freyermuth@googlemail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of hardware statistics.
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 21:34:34 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180125.213434.368174894600222543.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180126005326.GA15234@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 01:53:26 +0100
> Hardware statistics retrieval hurts in tight invocation loops.
>
> Avoid extraneous write and enforce strict ordering of writes targeted to
> the tally counters dump area address registers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
> Tested-by: Oliver Freyermuth <o.freyermuth@googlemail.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Francois.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-26 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-20 20:18 Memory corruption with r8169 across several device revisions and kernels Oliver Freyermuth
2018-01-21 20:48 ` Francois Romieu
2018-01-21 20:50 ` Oliver Freyermuth
2018-01-22 0:09 ` Francois Romieu
2018-01-22 0:44 ` Oliver Freyermuth
2018-01-22 22:55 ` Oliver Freyermuth
2018-01-23 15:28 ` David Miller
2018-01-23 15:47 ` Oliver Freyermuth
2018-01-24 5:31 ` Andreas Hartmann
2018-01-24 7:05 ` Andreas Hartmann
2018-01-23 22:13 ` Francois Romieu
2018-01-24 1:21 ` Oliver Freyermuth
2018-01-24 1:33 ` David Miller
2018-01-26 0:53 ` [PATCH net 1/1] r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of hardware statistics Francois Romieu
2018-01-26 2:34 ` David Miller [this message]
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