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Date:   Fri, 3 Feb 2017 13:20:43 -0800
From:   Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/9] sunvnet: add memory barrier before check for
 tx enable

On 2/3/2017 9:56 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 09:42 -0800, Shannon Nelson wrote:
>> In order to allow the underlying LDC and outstanding memory operations
>> to potentially catch up with the driver's Tx requests, add a memory
>> barrier before checking again for available tx descriptors.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c |    1 +
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c
>> index 5d0d386..98e758e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c
>> @@ -1467,6 +1467,7 @@ ldc_start_done:
>>  	dr->prod = (dr->prod + 1) & (VNET_TX_RING_SIZE - 1);
>>  	if (unlikely(vnet_tx_dring_avail(dr) < 1)) {
>>  		netif_tx_stop_queue(txq);
>> +		dma_wmb();
>
> This does not look right.
>
> I believe you need smp_rmb() here.

Well, it probably should be dma_rmb(), since regardless of the number of 
cores we think we have, we're communicating with a peer ldom that has 
its own core(s).  Either way, on sparc they all seem to boil down to the 
same bit of asm, but using the "rmb" part makes more logical sense. 
I'll respin with dma_rmb().

Good catch, thanks,
sln


>
>>  		if (vnet_tx_dring_avail(dr) > VNET_TX_WAKEUP_THRESH(dr))
>>  			netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);
>>  	}
>
>