We need to ensure the loads from the descriptor are done after the MMIO store clearing the interrupts has completed, otherwise we might still miss work.
A read back from the MMIO register will "push" the posted store and ioread32 has a barrier on weakly aordered architectures that will order subsequent accesses. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> --- drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c index 45b8267..95bf5e8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c @@ -1349,6 +1349,13 @@ static int ftgmac100_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) */ iowrite32(FTGMAC100_INT_RXTX, priv->base + FTGMAC100_OFFSET_ISR); + + /* Push the above (and provides a barrier vs. subsequent + * reads of the descriptor). + */ + ioread32(priv->base + FTGMAC100_OFFSET_ISR); + + /* Check RX and TX descriptors for more work to do */ if (ftgmac100_check_rx(priv) || ftgmac100_tx_buf_cleanable(priv)) return budget; -- 2.9.3