enic: Bug Fix: Fix hardware descriptor reads
The last bit written to a completion descriptor by hardware is the color
bit. Driver must read all other descriptor fields only after reading the
color bit to avoid reading stale descriptor fields. There is a rmb() after
reading the color bit to avoid any compiler/cpu reordering of the reads.
The color bit is the generation bit that toggles each pass through the
completion descriptor ring.
Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthy Kolluri <vkolluri@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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