netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: remove unneeded mmiowb barriers

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Message-Id: <20181127.163639.347019316487402399.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:36:39 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: remove unneeded mmiowb barriers

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:24:16 +0100

> writex() has implicit barriers, that's what makes it different from
> writex_relaxed(). Therefore these calls to mmiowb() can be removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Applied.