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e1000 writes to doorbells to post transmit descriptors and fill the receive ring. After writing descriptors to memory but before writing to doorbells, use dma_wmb() rather than wmb(). wmb() is more heavyweight than necessary for a device to see descriptor writes. On x86, this avoids SFENCEs before doorbell writes in both the Tx and Rx paths. On ARM, this converts DSB ST -> DMB OSHST. Tested: 82576EB / x86; QEMU (qemu emulates an 8257x) Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@google.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.