From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> barrier() is a big hammer compared to READ_ONCE(), and requires comments explaining what is protected.
READ_ONCE() is more precise and compiler should generate better overall code. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c | 17 +++++------------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c index 9960a9249dc0d0c8fb3494989e882a4c96e64970..d5d1026be4b70a320c48af7545a1891c74e19a47 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c @@ -254,13 +254,10 @@ static inline u32 bnx2_tx_avail(struct bnx2 *bp, struct bnx2_tx_ring_info *txr) { u32 diff; - /* Tell compiler to fetch tx_prod and tx_cons from memory. */ - barrier(); - /* The ring uses 256 indices for 255 entries, one of them * needs to be skipped. */ - diff = txr->tx_prod - txr->tx_cons; + diff = READ_ONCE(txr->tx_prod) - READ_ONCE(txr->tx_cons); if (unlikely(diff >= BNX2_TX_DESC_CNT)) { diff &= 0xffff; if (diff == BNX2_TX_DESC_CNT) @@ -2839,10 +2836,8 @@ bnx2_get_hw_tx_cons(struct bnx2_napi *bnapi) { u16 cons; - /* Tell compiler that status block fields can change. */ - barrier(); - cons = *bnapi->hw_tx_cons_ptr; - barrier(); + cons = READ_ONCE(*bnapi->hw_tx_cons_ptr); + if (unlikely((cons & BNX2_MAX_TX_DESC_CNT) == BNX2_MAX_TX_DESC_CNT)) cons++; return cons; @@ -3141,10 +3136,8 @@ bnx2_get_hw_rx_cons(struct bnx2_napi *bnapi) { u16 cons; - /* Tell compiler that status block fields can change. */ - barrier(); - cons = *bnapi->hw_rx_cons_ptr; - barrier(); + cons = READ_ONCE(*bnapi->hw_rx_cons_ptr); + if (unlikely((cons & BNX2_MAX_RX_DESC_CNT) == BNX2_MAX_RX_DESC_CNT)) cons++; return cons;