netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] via-rhine: commit receive buffer address before descriptor status update.

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Date:	Tue, 7 Apr 2015 23:02:48 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nix@...eri.org.uk, rl@...lgate.ch,
	gurligebis@...too.org,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] via-rhine: commit receive buffer address
 before descriptor status update.

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> :
> From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
[...]
> > @@ -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();
> 
> dma_wmb() perhaps?  I think this is exactly the situation that interface was
> added for.

I need the buffer address to be written in the receive descriptor before
the descriptor status is. The cpu does W1, W2 and the nic mustn't see W2, W1.

-- 
Ueimor
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