On 9/9/19 11:14 AM, Joyce Kong wrote:
> In case VIRTIO_F_ORDER_PLATFORM(36) is not negotiated, then the frontend
> and backend are assumed to be implemented in software, that is they can
> run on identical CPUs in an SMP configuration.
> Thus a weak form of memory barriers like rte_smp_r/wmb, other than
> rte_cio_r/wmb, is sufficient for this case(vq->hw->weak_barriers == 1)
> and yields better performance.
> For the above case, this patch helps yielding even better performance
> by replacing the two-way barriers with C11 one-way barriers for avail
> flags in packed ring.
>
> Meanwhile, a read barrier is required to ensure ordering between
> descriptor's flags and content reads[1]. With C11, load-acquire can
> enforce the ordering instead of rmb barrier.
>
> [1]https://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/49109/
>
> Signed-off-by: Joyce Kong <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c | 13 +++++++------
> drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c | 6 +++++-
> drivers/net/virtio/virtqueue.h | 11 +++++++++++
> lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h | 2 +-
> lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c | 11 +++++------
> 5 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <[email protected]>
Thanks,
Maxime
