| To: | "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc2 3/3] tg3: Fix tg3_restart_ints() |
| From: | "Michael Chan" <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:56:25 -0700 |
| Cc: | akepner@xxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <20050425151816.1910b2ba.davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 15:18 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > All 3 patches applied, looks great. > > The only thing I see is that we might want to put a > rmb() at the beginning of tg3_has_work() since we are > clearing the status block bit right before we call it. > It might not be necessary though. > I think memory barriers are not needed since tg3_has_work() does not depend on what's been written or read before it, other than sblk->status which is a direct dependency. |
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