virtio: expose added descriptors immediately.

A virtio driver does virtqueue_add_buf() multiple times before finally
calling virtqueue_kick(); previously we only exposed the added buffers
in the virtqueue_kick() call.  This means we don't need a memory
barrier in virtqueue_add_buf(), but it reduces concurrency as the
device (ie. host) can't see the buffers until the kick.

In the unusual (but now possible) case where a driver does add_buf()
and get_buf() without doing a kick, we do need to insert one before
our counter wraps.  Otherwise we could wrap num_added, and later on
not realize that we have passed the marker where we should have
kicked.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 99dc948..36bb6a6 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -251,9 +251,20 @@ add_head:
 
 	/* Put entry in available array (but don't update avail->idx until they
 	 * do sync). */
-	avail = ((vq->vring.avail->idx + vq->num_added++) & (vq->vring.num-1));
+	avail = (vq->vring.avail->idx & (vq->vring.num-1));
 	vq->vring.avail->ring[avail] = head;
 
+	/* Descriptors and available array need to be set before we expose the
+	 * new available array entries. */
+	virtio_wmb(vq);
+	vq->vring.avail->idx++;
+	vq->num_added++;
+
+	/* This is very unlikely, but theoretically possible.  Kick
+	 * just in case. */
+	if (unlikely(vq->num_added == (1 << 16) - 1))
+		virtqueue_kick(_vq);
+
 	pr_debug("Added buffer head %i to %p\n", head, vq);
 	END_USE(vq);
 
@@ -283,13 +294,10 @@ bool virtqueue_kick_prepare(struct virtqueue *_vq)
 	 * new available array entries. */
 	virtio_wmb(vq);
 
-	old = vq->vring.avail->idx;
-	new = vq->vring.avail->idx = old + vq->num_added;
+	old = vq->vring.avail->idx - vq->num_added;
+	new = vq->vring.avail->idx;
 	vq->num_added = 0;
 
-	/* Need to update avail index before checking if we should notify */
-	virtio_mb(vq);
-
 	if (vq->event) {
 		needs_kick = vring_need_event(vring_avail_event(&vq->vring),
 					      new, old);