Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 2/2] ring: use wfe to wait for ring tail update on aarch64

["Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>]

> 
> Instead of polling for tail to be updated, use wfe instruction.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ola Liljedahl <ola.liljedahl@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h | 4 ++--
>  lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_generic.h | 3 +--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h
> index 0fb73a337..764d8f186 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>   *
>   * Copyright (c) 2017,2018 HXT-semitech Corporation.
>   * Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Kip Macy kmacy@freebsd.org
> + * Copyright (c) 2019 Arm Limited
>   * All rights reserved.
>   * Derived from FreeBSD's bufring.h
>   * Used as BSD-3 Licensed with permission from Kip Macy.
> @@ -21,8 +22,7 @@ update_tail(struct rte_ring_headtail *ht, uint32_t old_val, uint32_t new_val,
>  	 * we need to wait for them to complete
>  	 */
>  	if (!single)
> -		while (unlikely(ht->tail != old_val))
> -			rte_pause();
> +		rte_wait_until_equal_relaxed_32(&ht->tail, old_val);
> 
>  	__atomic_store_n(&ht->tail, new_val, __ATOMIC_RELEASE);
>  }
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_generic.h b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_generic.h
> index 953cdbbd5..682852783 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_generic.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_generic.h
> @@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ update_tail(struct rte_ring_headtail *ht, uint32_t old_val, uint32_t new_val,
>  	 * we need to wait for them to complete
>  	 */
>  	if (!single)
> -		while (unlikely(ht->tail != old_val))
> -			rte_pause();
> +		rte_wait_until_equal_relaxed_32(&ht->tail, old_val);

./lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_generic.h:26:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'rte_wait_until_equal_relaxed_32'; did you mean 'rte_wait_until_equal_32'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
   rte_wait_until_equal_relaxed_32(&ht->tail, old_val);
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


BTW, after patch #1 compilation fails also:
../lib/librte_eal/x86/include/rte_spinlock.h:125:24: error: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'rte_try_tm' differ in signedness [-Werror=pointer-sign]
  if (likely(rte_try_tm(&sl->locked)))
                        ^



> 
>  	ht->tail = new_val;
>  }
> --
> 2.17.1