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From: "Xie, Huawei" <huawei.xie@intel.com>
To: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
	Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>,
	Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Dyasly Sergey <s.dyasly@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] vhost: use SMP barriers instead of	compiler ones.
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:25:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C37D651A908B024F974696C65296B57B4C687794@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB97725836B1F296@irsmsx105.ger.corp.intel.com>

On 3/21/2016 10:07 PM, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Ilya Maximets
>> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 4:50 AM
>> To: Yuanhan Liu
>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Xie, Huawei; Dyasly Sergey
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] vhost: use SMP barriers instead of compiler ones.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 18.03.2016 15:41, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 03:23:53PM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>>>> Since commit 4c02e453cc62 ("eal: introduce SMP memory barriers") virtio
>>>> uses architecture dependent SMP barriers. vHost should use them too.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 4c02e453cc62 ("eal: introduce SMP memory barriers")
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c | 7 ++++---
>>>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c
>>>> index b4da665..859c669 100644
>>>> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c
>>>> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c
>>>> @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ virtio_dev_rx(struct virtio_net *dev, uint16_t queue_id,
>>>>  			rte_prefetch0(&vq->desc[desc_indexes[i+1]]);
>>>>  	}
>>>>
>>>> -	rte_compiler_barrier();
>>>> +	rte_smp_wmb();
>>>>
>>>>  	/* Wait until it's our turn to add our buffer to the used ring. */
>>>>  	while (unlikely(vq->last_used_idx != res_start_idx))
>>>> @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ virtio_dev_merge_rx(struct virtio_net *dev, uint16_t queue_id,
>>>>
>>>>  		nr_used = copy_mbuf_to_desc_mergeable(dev, vq, start, end,
>>>>  						      pkts[pkt_idx]);
>>>> -		rte_compiler_barrier();
>>>> +		rte_smp_wmb();
>>>>
>>>>  		/*
>>>>  		 * Wait until it's our turn to add our buffer
>>>> @@ -923,7 +923,8 @@ rte_vhost_dequeue_burst(struct virtio_net *dev, uint16_t queue_id,
>>>>  				sizeof(vq->used->ring[used_idx]));
>>>>  	}
>>>>
>>>> -	rte_compiler_barrier();
>>>> +	rte_smp_wmb();
>>>> +	rte_smp_rmb();
>>> rte_smp_mb?
>> rte_smp_mb() is a real mm_fence() on x86. And we don't need to synchronize reads with
>> writes here, only reads with reads and writes with writes. It is enough because next
>> increment uses read and write. Pair of barriers is better because it will not impact
>> on performance on x86.
> Not arguing about that particular patch, just a question:
> Why do we have:
> #define rte_smp_mb() rte_mb()

Konstantine, actually smp_mb is defined as mfence while smp_r/wmb are
defined as barrier in kernel_src/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h.

> for  x86?
> Why not just:
> #define rte_smp_mb() rte_compiler_barrier()
> here?
> I meant for situations when we do need real mfence, there is an 'rte_mb' to use.
> Konstantin
>
>> Best regards, Ilya Maximets.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-21 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-24 11:47 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v3 0/3] Thread safe rte_vhost_enqueue_burst() Ilya Maximets
2016-02-24 11:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v3 1/3] vhost: use SMP barriers instead of compiler ones Ilya Maximets
2016-03-18 10:08   ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-18 10:23     ` Ilya Maximets
2016-03-18 10:27       ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-18 10:39         ` Ilya Maximets
2016-03-18 10:47           ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-18 11:00             ` Ilya Maximets
     [not found]               ` <C37D651A908B024F974696C65296B57B4C67825C@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>
     [not found]                 ` <56EBE9AE.9070400@samsung.com>
     [not found]                   ` <56EBF256.8040409@samsung.com>
2016-03-18 12:28                     ` Ilya Maximets
2016-03-18 12:23   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Ilya Maximets
2016-03-18 12:41     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-21  4:49       ` Ilya Maximets
2016-03-21 14:07         ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-03-21 17:25           ` Xie, Huawei [this message]
2016-03-21 17:36             ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-03-23 14:07     ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-31 13:46       ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-24 11:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v3 2/3] vhost: make buf vector for scatter RX local Ilya Maximets
2016-02-24 11:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v3 3/3] vhost: avoid reordering of used->idx and last_used_idx updating Ilya Maximets
2016-03-17 15:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC v3 0/3] Thread safe rte_vhost_enqueue_burst() Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-18  8:00   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-18  8:09     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-18  9:16       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-18  9:34         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-18  9:46           ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-03-18  9:55             ` Ilya Maximets
2016-03-18 10:10               ` Xie, Huawei
2016-03-18 10:24                 ` Thomas Monjalon

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