Re: [PATCH] net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:26:36 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Maybe I should have refrained from making that comment after all :)
> Having the Fixes: tag dramatically helps with getting this patch applied
> all the way to the relevant stable trees and surely correctness over
> speed should prevail. If we want to restore the performance loss (with
> the onus on Doug and I to prove that there is a performance drop), then
> we could send a fix with the appropriate localized barrier followed by a
> revert of Jeremy's patch. And if we cared about getting those two
> patches applied to stable, we would tag them with the appropriate Fixes tag.
> 
> It looks like there are a few 'net' changes that showed up, are you
> going to send a pull request to Linus before 5.17 final is cut?

Not unless there's -rc9. We'll just merge net into net-next before
submitting net-next, most likely.