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authorEric Dumazet2016-11-23 18:46:52 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller2016-11-27 21:26:15 +0100
commitb9972d2205f696fdb53ee0133aebd2d0a99e1801 (patch)
tree1f978091016d7c8c066a05d0ee6db6d9dbf331c3 /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4
parentMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net (diff)
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mlx4: do not use priv->stats_lock in mlx4_en_auto_moderation()
Per RX ring packets/bytes counters are not protected by global priv->stats_lock. Better not confuse the reader, and use READ_ONCE() to show we read these counters without surrounding synchronization. Interrupt moderation is best effort, and we do not really care of ultra precise counters. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
index c48ce3f366c3..ea76b28b728b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -1394,10 +1394,8 @@ static void mlx4_en_auto_moderation(struct mlx4_en_priv *priv)
return;
for (ring = 0; ring < priv->rx_ring_num; ring++) {
- spin_lock_bh(&priv->stats_lock);
- rx_packets = priv->rx_ring[ring]->packets;
- rx_bytes = priv->rx_ring[ring]->bytes;
- spin_unlock_bh(&priv->stats_lock);
+ rx_packets = READ_ONCE(priv->rx_ring[ring]->packets);
+ rx_bytes = READ_ONCE(priv->rx_ring[ring]->bytes);
rx_pkt_diff = ((unsigned long) (rx_packets -
priv->last_moder_packets[ring]));