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SubjectRe: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] new barrier type for paravirt (was Re: [PATCH] virtio_ring: use smp_store_mb)
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 20/12/15 09:25, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > I noticed that drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.c uses
> > full memory barriers to communicate with the other side.
> > For example:
> >
> > /* Must write data /after/ reading the consumer index. * */
> > mb();
> >
> > memcpy(dst, data, avail);
> > data += avail;
> > len -= avail;
> >
> > /* Other side must not see new producer until data is * there. */
> > wmb();
> > intf->req_prod += avail;
> >
> > /* Implies mb(): other side will see the updated producer. */
> > notify_remote_via_evtchn(xen_store_evtchn);
> >
> > To me, it looks like for guests compiled with CONFIG_SMP, smp_wmb and smp_mb
> > would be sufficient, so mb() and wmb() here are only needed if
> > a non-SMP guest runs on an SMP host.
> >
> > Is my analysis correct?
>
> For x86, yes.
>
> For arm/arm64 I think so, but would prefer one of the Xen arm
> maintainers to confirm. In particular, whether inner-shareable barriers
> are sufficient for memory shared with the hypervisor.

inner-shareable barriers are certainly OK. In this case there would be
also a switch from dsb to dmb barriers, which I also think should be OK.

What about all the mb() and wmb() in RING_PUSH_REQUESTS and
RING_PUSH_RESPONSES in include/xen/interface/io/ring.h ?


> > So what I'm suggesting is something like the below patch,
> > except instead of using virtio directly, a new set of barriers
> > that behaves identically for SMP and non-SMP guests will be introduced.
> >
> > And of course the weak barriers flag is not needed for Xen -
> > that's a virtio only thing.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > smp_pv_wmb()
> > smp_pv_rmb()
> > smp_pv_mb()
>
> The smp_ prefix doesn't make a lot of sense to me here since these
> barriers are going to be the same whether the kernel is SMP or not.


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