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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2010-01-27 17:42:23 -0500
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-02-23 22:52:25 -0500
commitd57ed95da483418e8b0433da693c9168dd0a2df6 (patch)
tree0eb215813f3066bf634a395d02cf4aab3ba94fc6 /drivers/virtio
parent97a545ab6ce922a0f868d192718a48a0091ebc5e (diff)
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 1ee97d402a48..827f7e042610 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -21,6 +21,24 @@
21#include <linux/virtio_config.h> 21#include <linux/virtio_config.h>
22#include <linux/device.h> 22#include <linux/device.h>
23 23
24/* virtio guest is communicating with a virtual "device" that actually runs on
25 * a host processor. Memory barriers are used to control SMP effects. */
26#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
27/* Where possible, use SMP barriers which are more lightweight than mandatory
28 * barriers, because mandatory barriers control MMIO effects on accesses
29 * through relaxed memory I/O windows (which virtio does not use). */
30#define virtio_mb() smp_mb()
31#define virtio_rmb() smp_rmb()
32#define virtio_wmb() smp_wmb()
33#else
34/* We must force memory ordering even if guest is UP since host could be
35 * running on another CPU, but SMP barriers are defined to barrier() in that
36 * configuration. So fall back to mandatory barriers instead. */
37#define virtio_mb() mb()
38#define virtio_rmb() rmb()
39#define virtio_wmb() wmb()
40#endif
41
24#ifdef DEBUG 42#ifdef DEBUG
25/* For development, we want to crash whenever the ring is screwed. */ 43/* For development, we want to crash whenever the ring is screwed. */
26#define BAD_RING(_vq, fmt, args...) \ 44#define BAD_RING(_vq, fmt, args...) \
@@ -220,13 +238,13 @@ static void vring_kick(struct virtqueue *_vq)
220 START_USE(vq); 238 START_USE(vq);
221 /* Descriptors and available array need to be set before we expose the 239 /* Descriptors and available array need to be set before we expose the
222 * new available array entries. */ 240 * new available array entries. */
223 wmb(); 241 virtio_wmb();
224 242
225 vq->vring.avail->idx += vq->num_added; 243 vq->vring.avail->idx += vq->num_added;
226 vq->num_added = 0; 244 vq->num_added = 0;
227 245
228 /* Need to update avail index before checking if we should notify */ 246 /* Need to update avail index before checking if we should notify */
229 mb(); 247 virtio_mb();
230 248
231 if (!(vq->vring.used->flags & VRING_USED_F_NO_NOTIFY)) 249 if (!(vq->vring.used->flags & VRING_USED_F_NO_NOTIFY))
232 /* Prod other side to tell it about changes. */ 250 /* Prod other side to tell it about changes. */
@@ -285,7 +303,7 @@ static void *vring_get_buf(struct virtqueue *_vq, unsigned int *len)
285 } 303 }
286 304
287 /* Only get used array entries after they have been exposed by host. */ 305 /* Only get used array entries after they have been exposed by host. */
288 rmb(); 306 virtio_rmb();
289 307
290 i = vq->vring.used->ring[vq->last_used_idx%vq->vring.num].id; 308 i = vq->vring.used->ring[vq->last_used_idx%vq->vring.num].id;
291 *len = vq->vring.used->ring[vq->last_used_idx%vq->vring.num].len; 309 *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)
323 /* We optimistically turn back on interrupts, then check if there was 341 /* We optimistically turn back on interrupts, then check if there was
324 * more to do. */ 342 * more to do. */
325 vq->vring.avail->flags &= ~VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT; 343 vq->vring.avail->flags &= ~VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT;
326 mb(); 344 virtio_mb();
327 if (unlikely(more_used(vq))) { 345 if (unlikely(more_used(vq))) {
328 END_USE(vq); 346 END_USE(vq);
329 return false; 347 return false;