[ Upstream commit 86c432ca5d6da90a26ac8d3e680f2268b502d9c5 ] This reverts commits65f0b417de,d88d6b05fe,fcfa060468,747df2258band867955f568. Depending on the processor model, write-combining may result in reordering that the NIC will not tolerate. This typically results in a DMA error event and reset by the driver, logged as: sfc 0000:0e:00.0: eth2: TX DMA Q reports TX_EV_PKT_ERR. sfc 0000:0e:00.0: eth2: resetting (ALL) Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>