Re: [PATCH 2.6] e100: remove reference to NAPI config option

[Scott Feldman <sfeldma@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:43, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> We have seen issues with NAPI on ppc64 on various cards in the past.
> Its possibly due to missing memory barriers; the interrupt and read of
> the interrupt status provide syncronization with DMA on the non NAPI
> case. Without this you need to be very careful to order reads (eg
> between reading the ring status and the packet data).

Anton, do you think this is the same issue Russel King is reporting
against ARM?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=110686676829392&w=2

What happens in the ppc64 case?  Do you have a fix for the ppc64 case?

-scott