On 03/09/2016 11:59, sean.w...@mediatek.com wrote:
> From: Sean Wang <sean.w...@mediatek.com>
> 
> The patch makes move wmb() to outside the loop that could help
> RX path handling more faster although that RX descriptors aren't
> freed for DMA to use as soon as possible, but based on my experiment
> and the result shows it still can reach about 943Mbpis without
> performance drop that is tested based on the setup with one port
> using Giga PHY and 256 RX descriptors for DMA to move.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.w...@mediatek.com>

gave it a quick spin on my hardware and it works well even when using
more than 1 gmac.

Acked-by: John Crispin <j...@phrozen.org>

> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c | 11 ++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c 
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
> index 431b851..a1bdb53 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c
> @@ -890,13 +890,14 @@ release_desc:
>               rxd->rxd2 = RX_DMA_PLEN0(ring->buf_size);
>  
>               ring->calc_idx = idx;
> -             /* make sure that all changes to the dma ring are flushed before
> -              * we continue
> -              */
> -             wmb();
> -             mtk_w32(eth, ring->calc_idx, MTK_PRX_CRX_IDX0);
> +
>               done++;
>       }
> +     /* make sure that all changes to the dma ring are flushed before
> +      * we continue
> +      */
> +     wmb();
> +     mtk_w32(eth, ring->calc_idx, MTK_PRX_CRX_IDX0);
>  
>       if (done < budget)
>               mtk_w32(eth, MTK_RX_DONE_INT, MTK_PDMA_INT_STATUS);
> 

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