On 03/23/13 12:28, Wanlong Gao wrote:
+static struct virtio_scsi_vq *virtscsi_pick_vq(struct virtio_scsi *vscsi,
+ struct virtio_scsi_target_state
*tgt)
+{
+ struct virtio_scsi_vq *vq;
+ unsigned long flags;
+ u32 queue_num;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags);
+
+ /*
+ * The memory barrier after atomic_inc_return matches
+ * the smp_read_barrier_depends() in virtscsi_req_done.
+ */
+ if (atomic_inc_return(&tgt->reqs) > 1)
+ vq = ACCESS_ONCE(tgt->req_vq);
+ else {
+ queue_num = smp_processor_id();
+ while (unlikely(queue_num >= vscsi->num_queues))
+ queue_num -= vscsi->num_queues;
+
+ tgt->req_vq = vq = &vscsi->req_vqs[queue_num];
+ }
+
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags);
+ return vq;
+}
Is there any reason why the smp_processor_id() % vscsi->num_queues
computation in virtscsi_pick_vq() has been implemented as a loop instead
of as an arithmetic operation ? If so, I would appreciate it if that
could be explained in a comment.
Thanks,
Bart.
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