Re: [PATCH 2.4.32] Fix AVM C4 ISDN card init problems with newer CPUs
From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Fri Aug 04 2006 - 03:03:52 EST
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 06:56:15PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 19:53 +0300, ysgrifennodd Jukka Partanen:
> > AVM C4 ISDN NIC: Add three memory barriers, taken from 2.6.7,
> > (they are there in 2.6.17.7 too), to fix module initialization
> > problems appearing with at least some newer Celerons and
> > Pentium III.
>
> Should be using cpu_relax() I think. Its a polled busy loop so you want
> other CPU threads to run if possible.
You mean like this ? Here's the patch for 2.6, I'll queue the same for 2.4
if it's alright.
> Alan
Regards,
Willy