Soften the memory barrier call of mb() by a sufficient wmb() in the consumer index update of the event queues.
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c index 4953c852c247..56395aa04ca1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static void eq_set_ci(struct mlx4_eq *eq, int req_not) req_not << 31), eq->doorbell); /* We still want ordering, just not swabbing, so add a barrier */ - mb(); + wmb(); } static struct mlx4_eqe *get_eqe(struct mlx4_eq *eq, u32 entry, u8 eqe_factor, -- 1.8.3.1