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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
index 93b97c6b8a63..681b738c6dac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -2867,6 +2867,9 @@ e1000_tx_queue(struct e1000_adapter *adapter, struct e1000_tx_ring *tx_ring,
tx_ring->next_to_use = i;
writel(i, adapter->hw.hw_addr + tx_ring->tdt);
+ /* we need this if more than one processor can write to our tail
+ * at a time, it syncronizes IO on IA64/Altix systems */
+ mmiowb();
}
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