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ibmveth: Use lighter weight read memory barrier in ibmveth_poll

We want to order the read in ibmveth_rxq_pending_buffer and the read of
ibmveth_rxq_buffer_valid which are both cacheable memory. smp_rmb() is good
enough for this.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Anton Blanchard 15 years ago
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      drivers/net/ibmveth.c

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drivers/net/ibmveth.c

@@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ static int ibmveth_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
 		if (!ibmveth_rxq_pending_buffer(adapter))
 			break;
 
-		rmb();
+		smp_rmb();
 		if (!ibmveth_rxq_buffer_valid(adapter)) {
 			wmb(); /* suggested by larson1 */
 			adapter->rx_invalid_buffer++;