[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] guarantee load/load order in enqueue and dequeue
Jia He
hejianet at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 04:30:41 CET 2017
From: Jia He <jia.he at hxt-semitech.com>
We watched a rte panic of mbuf_autotest in our qualcomm arm64 server
(Amberwing) due to a possible race condition. To fix this race condition,
rmb() is needed to add between the 2 loads.
Already fuctionally tested on the machines as follows:
- on X86
- on arm64
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Changelog
V6: improve the text description and fix the checkpatch warnings
V5: split it into 2 patchset due to the milestone concerns, this is the 1st one
V4: split into small patches
V3: arch specific implementation for enqueue/dequeue barrier
V2: let users choose whether using load_acquire/store_release
V1: rte_smp_rmb() between 2 loads
Jia He (1):
ring: guarantee load/load order in enqueue and dequeue
lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
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