From: Alexander Duyck Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 07:01:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: igb: Replace rmb in Tx cleanup with read_barrier_depends X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=70d289bcef24eca45dadf2f10fe79a936589216e;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git igb: Replace rmb in Tx cleanup with read_barrier_depends The rmb in the Tx cleanup path is a much stronger barrier than we really need. All that is really needed is a read_barrier_depends since the location of the EOP descriptor is dependent on the eop_desc value. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Tested-by: Aaron Brown Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c index c9e438ba1ec2..78354046cb3b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c @@ -5930,7 +5930,7 @@ static bool igb_clean_tx_irq(struct igb_q_vector *q_vector) break; /* prevent any other reads prior to eop_desc */ - rmb(); + read_barrier_depends(); /* if DD is not set pending work has not been completed */ if (!(eop_desc->wb.status & cpu_to_le32(E1000_TXD_STAT_DD)))