Re: xenbus stress testing

[Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>]

On 18/02/2011 12:42, "James Harper" <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:

>> You need to think about memory barriers and/or volatile.  Simply
>> "snapshotting" with an ordinary assignment doesn't work.
>> 
>> I don't know how this is done in Windows but the Linux kernel has a
>> clear explanation of the problem and how it's solved in Linux.  Look
>> in the kernel source tree in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt.
>> 
> 
> I issue a barrier (KeMemoryBarrier() which is a compiler and a memory
> barrier) after copying rsp_prod, eg:
> 
> rsp_prod = ring->rsp_prod;
> KeMemoryBarrier();
> Access the actual ring buffer
> 
> Is there anything else required?

Should be okay. That's basically what all other xenstore clients are doing.

 -- Keir