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Tsirkin" From: Ilya Maximets Message-ID: <9bbdf9aa-91d2-b68f-3d3c-9ee191708e9e@samsung.com> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 14:34:50 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFtrIKsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsWy7djPc7oJnJwxBiu3C1i8+7SdyeJK+092 i2WXPjNZnFuzlMXiWOceFov/v16xWvzr+MNusbXhP5PF5ouTmBw4PX4tWMrqsXjPSyaP9/uu snn0bVnFGMASxWWTkpqTWZZapG+XwJXxddoLpoLn/BXX7/5nbGB8w9PFyMkhIWAi8XfWNrYu Ri4OIYEVjBLL/p2Gcr4wSvzaspIVpEpI4DOjxIpTsjAd1w9NYYEoWs4o8W/KBUYI5yOjRO/9 D+wgVcICbhJd504xgyREQKr6TpwGSzALWElcWbMHbCybgI7EqdVHGEFsXgE7iV83vrGA2CwC KhI/WlvYQGxRgQiJjvur2SBqBCVOznwCVsMJVD+v9w0zxExxiaYvEKcyC8hLNG+dDbZYQmAX u8TUs/fZIe52kbiz8z8ThC0s8er4Fqi4jMTpyT0sEHa9xP2Wl4wQzR2MEtMP/YNqsJfY8voc UAMH0AZNifW79CHCjhJ71jaygIQlBPgkbrwVhLiBT2LStunMEGFeiY42IYhqFYnfB5czQ9hS EjfffWafwKg0C8lns5B8MwvJN7MQ9i5gZFnFKJ5aWpybnlpsnJdarlecmFtcmpeul5yfu4kR mJBO/zv+dQfjvj9JhxgFOBiVeHhfPGCPEWJNLCuuzD3EKMHBrCTCy6DHESPEm5JYWZValB9f VJqTWnyIUZqDRUmct5rhQbSQQHpiSWp2ampBahFMlomDU6qBMWynX1PEit6K6mO9isKHb6km Xm/OarXRymcQ2riptXvSzoNpa160/mkXr287/syPYYamu3pv1c16pulRD8om2Gyfu+TSxtSl mRuM8g7LBKr886+vj5+e5/Do1ZpKnlnexo/ON7XrNXFmMa1s1f20Ujao+9eVeMV69w6HySx9 r6dUPfnLdnGOEktxRqKhFnNRcSIA/CrVcEQDAAA= X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFjrCIsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsVy+t/xe7rxnJwxBu96RCzefdrOZHGl/Se7 xbJLn5kszq1ZymJxrHMPi8X/X69YLf51/GG32Nrwn8li88VJTA6cHr8WLGX1WLznJZPH+31X 2Tz6tqxiDGCJ0rMpyi8tSVXIyC8usVWKNrQw0jO0tNAzMrHUMzQ2j7UyMlXSt7NJSc3JLEst 0rdL0Mv4Ou0FU8Fz/orrd/8zNjC+4eli5OSQEDCRuH5oCksXIxeHkMBSRomeFe2sEAkpiR+/ LkDZwhJ/rnWxgdhCAu8ZJe6tKgCxhQXcJLrOnWIGaRYRWM4o8enSNbAGZgEriStr9rBCTP3N KPH58y8mkASbgI7EqdVHGEFsXgE7iV83vrGA2CwCKhI/WlvANogKREicfbkOqkZQ4uTMJ2A1 nED183rfMEMsUJf4M+8SlC0u0fRlJdRieYnmrbOZJzAKzULSPgtJyywkLbOQtCxgZFnFKJJa WpybnltsqFecmFtcmpeul5yfu4kRGIPbjv3cvIPx0sbgQ4wCHIxKPLwvHrDHCLEmlhVX5h5i lOBgVhLhZdDjiBHiTUmsrEotyo8vKs1JLT7EaAr03ERmKdHkfGB6yCuJNzQ1NLewNDQ3Njc2 s1AS5z1vUBklJJCeWJKanZpakFoE08fEwSnVwFju8vaM5uWisjW6F/QUd2XLbtCdGFb5/nm/ tMvNaI6/je+Fe59qeLzJ2bdFOUjBbBfv+ycmX1bLfZjNY3P0VmzCtScPRNOu/b3EfOT81OW5 3+dIFq0/+zwyqCAgZ80fwUObTv4549UWvGkjA0d12fy1Ec0yYQpqz3a4Xy8rMm23lPPm/p0u HazEUpyRaKjFXFScCAAa2D7C1wIAAA== X-CMS-MailID: 20181206113455eucas1p2d15e640fba9cd2ea5bf1188354a42126 X-Msg-Generator: CA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-RootMTR: 20181205133332eucas1p195b3864ed146403e314d7004d27be285 X-EPHeader: CA CMS-TYPE: 201P X-CMS-RootMailID: 20181205133332eucas1p195b3864ed146403e314d7004d27be285 References: <20181205094957.1938-3-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> <16a4b2fd-c701-7822-3215-62e431e3f339@samsung.com> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [2/5] vhost: enforce desc flags and content read ordering X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 11:34:58 -0000 On 06.12.2018 7:24, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2018/12/5 下午9:33, Ilya Maximets wrote: >> On 05.12.2018 12:49, Maxime Coquelin wrote: >>> A read barrier is required to ensure that the ordering between >>> descriptor's flags and content reads is enforced. >>> >>> Fixes: 2f3225a7d69b ("vhost: add vector filling support for packed ring") >>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org >>> >>> Reported-by: Jason Wang >>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin >>> --- >>>   lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c | 6 ++++++ >>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) >>> >>> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c >>> index f11ebb54f..68b72e7a5 100644 >>> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c >>> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c >>> @@ -520,6 +520,12 @@ fill_vec_buf_packed(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, >>>       if (unlikely(!desc_is_avail(&descs[avail_idx], wrap_counter))) >>>           return -1; >>>   +    /* >>> +     * The ordering between desc flags and desc >>> +     * content reads need to be enforced. >>> +     */ >>> +    rte_smp_rmb(); >>> + >> Same here. 'desc_is_avail' reads and uses the flags. i.e. >> no way for reordering, >> Writes must be ordered on the virtio side by the write barrier. >> This means that if flags are updated (desc_is_avail() == true) >> than the whole descriptor already updated and the data is written. >> No need to have any read barriers here. > > > In fact , the sequence might be: > > > flag = read desc[avail_idx].flag [1] > > if(flag is not avail) { > >     read desc[avail_idx].id [2] > > } > > > There's no data dependency but control dependency here, so 2 could be done before 1 without a rmb. OK. Thanks. I agree. Missed that speculative load. Acked-by: Ilya Maximets > > Thanks > > >> >>>       *desc_count = 0; >>>       *len = 0; >>>   > >