[PATCH] drivers: net: xgene: fix: Out of order descriptor bytes read

Eric Dumazet eric.dumazet at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 13:32:42 PST 2015


On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 13:27 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> What happens if you compile a kernel with CONFIG_SMP=n ?
> 
> 
> Most drivers in drivers/net use rmb() in this case, not smp_rmb() or
> barrier()

Note that dma_rmb() was recently added as well.






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