Re: [PATCH net] net: hns3: add rmb() for rx description

From: tanhuazhong
Date: Mon Mar 04 2019 - 20:04:17 EST




On 2019/3/4 13:15, David Miller wrote:
From: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2019 16:49:30 +0800

From: Jian Shen <shenjian15@xxxxxxxxxx>

HW can not guarantee complete write desc->rx.size, even though
HNS3_RXD_VLD_B has been set. Driver needs to add rmb() instruction
to make sure desc->rx.size is always valid.

Fixes: e55970950556 ("net: hns3: Add handling of GRO Pkts not fully RX'ed in NAPI poll")
Signed-off-by: Jian Shen <shenjian15@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@xxxxxxxxxx>

dma_rmb() is more appropriate here and more efficient.


Thanks, will send V2 to fix it.

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