In order to allow the underlying LDC and outstanding memory operations to potentially catch up with the driver's Tx requests, add a memory barrier before checking again for available tx descriptors. Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c index 0f940f0..623363b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet_common.c @@ -1427,6 +1427,7 @@ int sunvnet_start_xmit_common(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, dr->prod = (dr->prod + 1) & (VNET_TX_RING_SIZE - 1); if (unlikely(vnet_tx_dring_avail(dr) < 1)) { netif_tx_stop_queue(txq); + smp_rmb(); if (vnet_tx_dring_avail(dr) > VNET_TX_WAKEUP_THRESH(dr)) netif_tx_wake_queue(txq); } -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html