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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	rl@hellgate.ch, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] via-rhine: commit receive buffer address before descriptor status update.
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 12:54:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <552435EA.6010609@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87c90b27962c818239073d3a65341054922bd563.1428340371.git.romieu@fr.zoreil.com>

On 04/06/2015 11:01 AM, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c
> index a191afc..00fea3d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c
> @@ -2063,6 +2063,7 @@ static int rhine_rx(struct net_device *dev, int limit)
>   				break;
>   			}
>   			rp->rx_ring[entry].addr = cpu_to_le32(rp->rx_skbuff_dma[entry]);
> +			wmb();
>   		}
>   		rp->rx_ring[entry].rx_status = cpu_to_le32(DescOwn);
>   	}

Do you need a full wmb() here or would a dma_wmb() be enough?  It could 
make a difference on some processor architectures.

- Alex

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-07 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-06 18:01 [PATCH RFT net-next 0/4] via-rhine receive buffers rework Francois Romieu
2015-04-06 18:01 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] via-rhine: commit receive buffer address before descriptor status update Francois Romieu
2015-04-07 19:52   ` David Miller
2015-04-07 21:02     ` Francois Romieu
2015-04-07 21:19       ` Alexander Duyck
2015-04-07 21:27       ` David Miller
2015-04-07 21:54         ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-07 22:12           ` Alexander Duyck
2015-04-07 22:22             ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-07 23:20               ` Alexander Duyck
2015-04-08 11:40                 ` David Laight
2015-04-07 19:54   ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
2015-04-06 18:01 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] via-rhine: add allocation helpers Francois Romieu
2015-04-06 18:01 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] via-rhine: gotoize rhine_open error path Francois Romieu
2015-04-06 18:01 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] via-rhine: forbid holes in the receive descriptor ring Francois Romieu
2015-04-06 21:46 ` [PATCH RFT net-next 0/4] via-rhine receive buffers rework Nix
2015-04-07 10:46   ` Nix
2015-04-07 19:31     ` Francois Romieu
2015-04-07 19:41       ` Nix

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