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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: pcnet32@verizon.net
Cc: john.dykstra1@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, romieu@fr.zoreil.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] pcnet32: Remove pointless memory barriers
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:19:36 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090429.171936.91197184.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241050188.18295.13.camel@localhost.localdomain>

From: Don Fry <pcnet32@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:09:48 -0700

> After going back to my original NAPI changes, email exchanges today with
> Francois and John, and looking through all the architecture
> implementation of mmiowb and locking; I agree that this mmiowb is
> unnecessary since a lock is always released which has all the memory
> barriers needed.  I no longer have access to all the equipment I had
> available at IBM, but it was tested a extensively on Intel and Power
> platforms without the mmiowb.
> 
> Acked-by:  Don Fry <pcnet32@verizon.net>

Looks good to me too, I'll apply this to net-next-2.6

Thanks

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-30  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-28 19:07 [PATCH net-next-2.6] pcnet32: Remove pointless memory barriers John Dykstra
2009-04-29  5:16 ` David Miller
2009-04-29 13:48   ` John Dykstra
2009-04-29 17:10     ` Don Fry
2009-04-29 19:07       ` John Dykstra
2009-04-29 22:29       ` Francois Romieu
2009-04-30  0:09 ` Don Fry
2009-04-30  0:16   ` John Dykstra
2009-04-30  0:21     ` David Miller
2009-04-30  0:19   ` David Miller [this message]

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