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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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:quoted
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