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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2010-01-28 00:42:23 +0200
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-02-24 14:22:25 +1030
commitd57ed95da483418e8b0433da693c9168dd0a2df6 (patch)
tree0eb215813f3066bf634a395d02cf4aab3ba94fc6 /drivers/virtio
parent97a545ab6ce922a0f868d192718a48a0091ebc5e (diff)
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virtio: use smp_XX barriers on SMP
virtio is communicating with a virtual "device" that actually runs on another host processor. Thus SMP barriers can be used to control memory access ordering. Where possible, we should use SMP barriers which are more lightweight than mandatory barriers, because mandatory barriers also control MMIO effects on accesses through relaxed memory I/O windows (which virtio does not use) (compare specifically smp_rmb and rmb on x86_64). We can't just use smp_mb and friends though, because we must force memory ordering even if guest is UP since host could be running on another CPU, but SMP barriers are defined to barrier() in that configuration. So, for UP fall back to mandatory barriers instead. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/virtio')
-rw-r--r--drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c26
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 1ee97d4..827f7e0 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -21,6 +21,24 @@
#include <linux/virtio_config.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
+/* virtio guest is communicating with a virtual "device" that actually runs on
+ * a host processor. Memory barriers are used to control SMP effects. */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+/* Where possible, use SMP barriers which are more lightweight than mandatory
+ * barriers, because mandatory barriers control MMIO effects on accesses
+ * through relaxed memory I/O windows (which virtio does not use). */
+#define virtio_mb() smp_mb()
+#define virtio_rmb() smp_rmb()
+#define virtio_wmb() smp_wmb()
+#else
+/* We must force memory ordering even if guest is UP since host could be
+ * running on another CPU, but SMP barriers are defined to barrier() in that
+ * configuration. So fall back to mandatory barriers instead. */
+#define virtio_mb() mb()
+#define virtio_rmb() rmb()
+#define virtio_wmb() wmb()
+#endif
+
#ifdef DEBUG
/* For development, we want to crash whenever the ring is screwed. */
#define BAD_RING(_vq, fmt, args...) \
@@ -220,13 +238,13 @@ static void vring_kick(struct virtqueue *_vq)
START_USE(vq);
/* Descriptors and available array need to be set before we expose the
* new available array entries. */
- wmb();
+ virtio_wmb();
vq->vring.avail->idx += vq->num_added;
vq->num_added = 0;
/* Need to update avail index before checking if we should notify */
- mb();
+ virtio_mb();
if (!(vq->vring.used->flags & VRING_USED_F_NO_NOTIFY))
/* Prod other side to tell it about changes. */
@@ -285,7 +303,7 @@ static void *vring_get_buf(struct virtqueue *_vq, unsigned int *len)
}
/* Only get used array entries after they have been exposed by host. */
- rmb();
+ virtio_rmb();
i = vq->vring.used->ring[vq->last_used_idx%vq->vring.num].id;
*len = vq->vring.used->ring[vq->last_used_idx%vq->vring.num].len;
@@ -323,7 +341,7 @@ static bool vring_enable_cb(struct virtqueue *_vq)
/* We optimistically turn back on interrupts, then check if there was
* more to do. */
vq->vring.avail->flags &= ~VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT;
- mb();
+ virtio_mb();
if (unlikely(more_used(vq))) {
END_USE(vq);
return false;
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