Re: [PATCH net 1/1] r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of hardware statistics.

2018-01-25 Thread David Miller
From: Francois Romieu Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 01:53:26 +0100 > Hardware statistics retrieval hurts in tight invocation loops. > > Avoid extraneous write and enforce strict ordering of writes targeted to > the tally counters dump area address registers. > > Signed-off-by:

[PATCH net 1/1] r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of hardware statistics.

2018-01-25 Thread Francois Romieu
Hardware statistics retrieval hurts in tight invocation loops. Avoid extraneous write and enforce strict ordering of writes targeted to the tally counters dump area address registers. Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu Tested-by: Oliver Freyermuth