From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: barriers before {req/rsp}_cons = cons?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:52:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080718185240.GH4576@implementation> (raw)
Hello,
In a bunch of places, one can read code like
cons = netif->tx.req_cons;
rmb(); /* Ensure that we see the request before we copy it. */
memcpy(&txreq, RING_GET_REQUEST(&netif->tx, i), sizeof(txreq));
some checks
netif->tx.req_cons = ++cons;
Shouldn't there be a full barrier just before the req_cons assignation?
I guess we are currently not seeing bugs at least because the req will
not be overwriten until we loop in the ring, but it seems to me there
may be a bug here.
Samuel
next reply other threads:[~2008-07-18 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-18 18:52 Samuel Thibault [this message]
2008-07-18 19:31 ` barriers before {req/rsp}_cons = cons? Keir Fraser
2008-07-18 19:33 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-07-18 19:34 ` Samuel Thibault
2008-07-21 8:28 ` Keir Fraser
2008-07-21 10:08 ` Samuel Thibault
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