netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/4] bnx2x: use smp_mb() to keep ordering of read write operations

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Message-Id: <20100315.154724.267126667.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:47:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eilong@...adcom.com
Cc:	sgruszka@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, vladz@...adcom.com,
	mchan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] bnx2x: use smp_mb() to keep ordering of read write
 operations

From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:59:44 +0200

> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 08:55 -0800, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
>> Since we want to keep ordering of write to fp->bd_tx_cons and
>> netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq), what is read of txq->state, we have to use
>> general memory barrier.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
> Singed-of-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>

Applied.
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