Re: [PATCH REPOST v4 5/7] ixgbevf: keep writel() closer to wmb()

From: okaya
Date: Wed Mar 21 2018 - 17:51:36 EST


On 2018-03-21 17:48, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
On Wed, 2018-03-21 at 14:56 -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
Remove ixgbevf_write_tail() in favor of moving writel() close to
wmb().

Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx>
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drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.h | 5 -----
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

This patch fails to compile because there is a call to
ixgbevf_write_tail() which you missed cleaning up.

Hah, I did a compile test but maybe I missed something. I will get v6 of this patch only and leave the rest of the series as it is.