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charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] eal/ppc: remove fix of memory barrier for IBM POWER 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: , Errors-To: stable-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "stable" Pradeep Satyanarayana wrote on Thu 3/21/2019 12:41 AM: >Thomas Monjalon wrote on 03/19/2019 01:45:01 PM: > >> From: Thomas Monjalon >> To: Shahaf Shuler >> Cc: Dekel Peled , Chao Zhu >> , Yongseok Koh , >> "dev@dpdk.org" , Ori Kam , >> "stable@dpdk.org" , pradeep@us.ibm.com >> Date: 03/19/2019 01:45 PM >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal/ppc: remove fix of memory barrier for IBM POWER >> [...] >> > >> > So far, when not running on power, we used the rte_wmb for that. >> On x86 and ARM systems it provided the needed guarantees. >> > It is also mentioned in the barrier doxygen on ARM arch: >> > " >> > Write memory barrier. >> > >> > Guarantees that the STORE operations generated before the barrier >> > occur before the STORE operations generated after. >> > " >> > >> > It doesn't restrict to store to system memory only. >> > w/ power is on somewhat different and in fact rte_mb is required. >> It obviously miss the point of those barrier if we will need to use >> a different barrier based on the system arch. >> > >> > We need to align the definition of the different barriers in DPDK: >> > 1. need a clear documentation of each. this should be global and >> not part of the specific implementation on each arch. > >A single approach may not work for all architectures. Power is different >from others, so we need to be able to accommodate that. More comments belo= w. it don't get this claim. It is ok to have some differences between the different arch, but here you = implement a well-defined barrier - rte_wmb. if you see a need we can discuss to define a **new** barrier which sync STO= RE only to system memory, and will be able to utilize the lwsync command. > >> >> The global definition is in lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_at= omic.h >> >> There are some copy/paste in Arm32 and PPC that I will remove. >> >> > 2. either modify ppc rte_wmb to match ARM and x86 ones or to >> define a new type of barrier which will sync between both I/O and >> stores to systems memory. >> >> The basic memory barrier of DPDK does not mention >> a difference between I/O and system memory. > >In the case of Power, sync will cater to both I/O and system memory. Howev= er, that >is too big a hammer in all cases. rte_wmb requires such sync. you propose to have the wrong barrier in favor = of performance. to mitigate this you can take my suggestion above and define a new, more li= ghtweight one. > >> It is not explicit (yet) but I assume it is protecting both. >> So, in my opinion, we need to make it explicit in the doc, >> and fix the PPC implementation to comply with this definition. >> >> Anyway, I don't see any significant effort from IBM to move from >> the alpha support stage to a real Open Source support. >> PS: sending a mail every two months, to promise improvements, is not eno= ugh! > [...] > >We should retain lwsync, should not be removed as discussed in here: > >http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-March/126746.html i don't agree. it is very clear the rte_wmb implementation in power is broken and we need = to fix this right away before other customers will hit the same issue.