On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 06:56:15PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 19:53 +0300, ysgrifennodd Jukka Partanen:
> > AVM C4 ISDN NIC: Add three memory barriers, taken from 2.6.7,
> > (they are there in 2.6.17.7 too), to fix module initialization
> > problems appearing with at least some newer Celerons and
> > Pentium III.
>
> Should be using cpu_relax() I think. Its a polled busy loop so you want
> other CPU threads to run if possible.
You mean like this ? Here's the patch for 2.6, I'll queue the same for 2.4
if it's alright.
> Alan
Regards,
Willy
>From 512d12bd7ce9c0a15dfd91a6f7c2970c92b3abdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 08:50:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] AVM C4 ISDN card : use cpu_relax() in busy loops
As suggested by Alan, use cpu_relax() in 3 busy loops : "It's a
polled busy loop so you want other CPU threads to run if possible".
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]>
---
drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/c4.c | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/c4.c b/drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/c4.c
index f7253b2..aee278e 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/c4.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/c4.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include <linux/capi.h>
#include <linux/kernelcapi.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
+#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/isdn/capicmd.h>
@@ -150,6 +151,7 @@ static inline int wait_for_doorbell(avmc
if (!time_before(jiffies, stop))
return -1;
mb();
+ cpu_relax();
}
return 0;
}
@@ -303,6 +305,7 @@ static void c4_reset(avmcard *card)
return;
c4outmeml(card->mbase+DOORBELL, DBELL_ADDR);
mb();
+ cpu_relax();
}
c4_poke(card, DC21285_ARMCSR_BASE + CHAN_1_CONTROL, 0);
@@ -327,6 +330,7 @@ static int c4_detect(avmcard *card)
return 2;
c4outmeml(card->mbase+DOORBELL, DBELL_ADDR);
mb();
+ cpu_relax();
}
c4_poke(card, DC21285_ARMCSR_BASE + CHAN_1_CONTROL, 0);
--
1.4.1
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