IA64 SMP systems were seeing TX issues with multiple cpu's attempting to write tail registers unordered. This mmiowb() fixes the issue. Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
@@ -2867,6 +2867,9 @@ e1000_tx_queue(struct e1000_adapter *adapter, struct e1000_tx_ring *tx_ring,
tx_ring->next_to_use = i;
writel(i, adapter->hw.hw_addr + tx_ring->tdt);
+ /* we need this if more than one processor can write to our tail
+ * at a time, it syncronizes IO on IA64/Altix systems */
+ mmiowb();
}
/**