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[3/4] net/memif: relax the load of ring head pointer for S2M ring

Message ID 20200921192254.20560-3-honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
Headers
Series [1/4] net/memif: do not update local copy of tail in tx function |

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ci/checkpatch success coding style OK

Commit Message

Honnappa Nagarahalli Sept. 21, 2020, 7:22 p.m. UTC 
  For S2M rings, ring->head is updated by the sender and eth_memif_tx
function is called in the context of sending thread. The loads in
the sender do not need to synchronize with its own stores.

Fixes: a2aafb9aa651 ("net/memif: optimize with one-way barrier")
Cc: phil.yang@arm.com
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
---
 drivers/net/memif/rte_eth_memif.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/memif/rte_eth_memif.c b/drivers/net/memif/rte_eth_memif.c
index 0d064c8fa..435c6345c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/memif/rte_eth_memif.c
+++ b/drivers/net/memif/rte_eth_memif.c
@@ -569,7 +569,13 @@  eth_memif_tx(void *queue, struct rte_mbuf **bufs, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 	mask = ring_size - 1;
 
 	if (type == MEMIF_RING_S2M) {
-		slot = __atomic_load_n(&ring->head, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
+		/* For S2M queues ring->head is updated by the sender and
+		 * this function is called in the context of sending thread.
+		 * The loads in the sender do not need to synchronize with
+		 * its own stores. Hence, the following load can be a
+		 * relaxed load.
+		 */
+		slot = __atomic_load_n(&ring->head, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
 		n_free = ring_size - slot +
 				__atomic_load_n(&ring->tail, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
 	} else {