Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 4 authors, 2024-04-23

Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] vhost: Improve vhost_get_avail_idx() with smp_rmb()

From: Gavin Shan <hidden>
Date: 2024-03-30 09:02:26
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On 3/28/24 19:31, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 10:21:49AM +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
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All the callers of vhost_get_avail_idx() are concerned to the memory
barrier, imposed by smp_rmb() to ensure the order of the available
ring entry read and avail_idx read.

Improve vhost_get_avail_idx() so that smp_rmb() is executed when
the avail_idx is advanced. With it, the callers needn't to worry
about the memory barrier.

Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <redacted>
Previous patches are ok. This one I feel needs more work -
first more code such as sanity checking should go into
this function, second there's actually a difference
between comparing to last_avail_idx and just comparing
to the previous value of avail_idx.
I will pick patches 1-2 and post a cleanup on top so you can
take a look, ok?
Thanks, Michael. It's fine to me.

Thanks,
Gavin
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