From: "Björn Töpel" <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
To: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
"Björn Töpel" <bjorn.topel@gmail.com>,
ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: magnus.karlsson@intel.com, jonathan.lemon@gmail.com,
maximmi@nvidia.com, andrii@kernel.org, will@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] libbpf, xsk: add libbpf_smp_store_release libbpf_smp_load_acquire
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 09:05:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e052a22a-4b7b-fe38-06ad-2ad04c83dda7@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0qqx3be.fsf@toke.dk>
On 2021-03-01 17:10, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> From: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
>>
>> Now that the AF_XDP rings have load-acquire/store-release semantics,
>> move libbpf to that as well.
>>
>> The library-internal libbpf_smp_{load_acquire,store_release} are only
>> valid for 32-bit words on ARM64.
>>
>> Also, remove the barriers that are no longer in use.
>
> So what happens if an updated libbpf is paired with an older kernel (or
> vice versa)?
>
"This is fine." ;-) This was briefly discussed in [1], outlined by the
previous commit!
...even on POWER.
Björn
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200316184423.GA14143@willie-the-truck/
> -Toke
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-02 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-01 10:43 [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] load-acquire/store-release semantics for AF_XDP rings Björn Töpel
2021-03-01 10:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] xsk: update rings for load-acquire/store-release semantics Björn Töpel
2021-03-01 16:08 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-03-02 8:04 ` Björn Töpel
2021-03-02 10:23 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-03-03 7:56 ` Björn Töpel
2021-03-01 10:43 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] libbpf, xsk: add libbpf_smp_store_release libbpf_smp_load_acquire Björn Töpel
2021-03-01 16:10 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-03-02 8:05 ` Björn Töpel [this message]
2021-03-02 9:13 ` Daniel Borkmann
2021-03-02 9:16 ` Björn Töpel
2021-03-02 9:25 ` Daniel Borkmann
2021-03-03 8:08 ` Björn Töpel
2021-03-03 15:39 ` Will Deacon
2021-03-03 16:34 ` Björn Töpel
2021-03-03 4:38 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-03-03 7:14 ` Björn Töpel
2021-03-03 8:19 ` Björn Töpel
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