Kumar Gala wrote:
Why doesn't marking the bdp pointer volatile resolve the issue in gfar_clean_rx_ring() to ensure load ordering?

Because that only addresses compiler reordering (and does so in a rather clumsy way -- not all accesses need to be strongly ordered), not hardware reordering.

-Scott
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