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Commit c16cc0b4 authored by Vladislav Zolotarov's avatar Vladislav Zolotarov Committed by David S. Miller
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bnx2x: Tx barriers and locks


[Resending with the proper subject. Sorry for the mess. ]

This patch is based on the RFC of Stanislaw Gruszka.

More specifically it fixes two possible races:
- One, described by Stanislaw, may lead to permanent disabling of the Tx
queue.
This is fixed by adding the smp_wmb() to propagate the BD consumer
change towards the memory.
- Second may lead to bnx2x_start_xmit() returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY.
This is fixed by taking a tx_lock() before rechecking the number of
available Tx BDs.

thanks,
vlad

Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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