linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH REPOST v4 5/7] ixgbevf: keep writel() closer to wmb()

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Date:   Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:54:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:     okaya@...eaurora.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, timur@...eaurora.org,
        sulrich@...eaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH REPOST v4 5/7] ixgbevf: keep writel() closer to wmb()

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:48:08 -0700

> On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 14:56 -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> Remove ixgbevf_write_tail() in favor of moving writel() close to
>> wmb().
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.h      | 5 -----
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 4 ++--
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> This patch fails to compile because there is a call to
> ixgbevf_write_tail() which you missed cleaning up.

For a change with delicate side effects, it doesn't create much
confidence if the code does not even compile.

Sinan, please put more care into the changes you are making.

Thank you.