From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>, Wei Hu <weh@microsoft.com>
Subject: [RFC 05/32] bus/vmbus: replace SMP barriers with C11 memory fences
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:53:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260729175715.165120-6-stephen@networkplumber.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260729175715.165120-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>
Full barriers order the preceding index store against the following
load of the interrupt mask or pending size and stay seq_cst; read
barriers become acquire fences. Same code generated on x86 and arm64.
The write barrier before publishing the transmit index becomes a
release fence. Nominally stronger on arm64, but it is immediately
followed by a full barrier cmpset; converting that to a release
compare-exchange is left for the rte_atomic32 removal series.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
drivers/bus/vmbus/vmbus_bufring.c | 6 +++---
drivers/bus/vmbus/vmbus_channel.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/bus/vmbus/vmbus_bufring.c b/drivers/bus/vmbus/vmbus_bufring.c
index f622869974..31478d3bfa 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/vmbus/vmbus_bufring.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/vmbus/vmbus_bufring.c
@@ -58,11 +58,11 @@ void vmbus_br_setup(struct vmbus_br *br, void *buf, unsigned int blen)
static inline bool
vmbus_txbr_need_signal(const struct vmbus_bufring *vbr, uint32_t old_windex)
{
- rte_smp_mb();
+ rte_atomic_thread_fence(rte_memory_order_seq_cst);
if (vbr->imask)
return false;
- rte_smp_rmb();
+ rte_atomic_thread_fence(rte_memory_order_acquire);
/*
* This is the only case we need to signal when the
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ vmbus_txbr_write(struct vmbus_br *tbr, const struct iovec iov[], int iovlen,
RTE_ASSERT(windex == next_windex);
/* Ensure that data is available before updating host index */
- rte_smp_wmb();
+ rte_atomic_thread_fence(rte_memory_order_release);
/* Checkin for our reservation. wait for our turn to update host */
while (!rte_atomic32_cmpset(&vbr->windex, old_windex, next_windex))
diff --git a/drivers/bus/vmbus/vmbus_channel.c b/drivers/bus/vmbus/vmbus_channel.c
index 2648d8e3fd..10293f59be 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/vmbus/vmbus_channel.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/vmbus/vmbus_channel.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ bool rte_vmbus_chan_rx_empty(const struct vmbus_channel *channel)
{
const struct vmbus_br *br = &channel->rxbr;
- rte_smp_rmb();
+ rte_atomic_thread_fence(rte_memory_order_acquire);
return br->vbr->rindex == br->vbr->windex;
}
@@ -229,13 +229,13 @@ void rte_vmbus_chan_signal_read(struct rte_vmbus_device *dev,
return;
/* Make sure reading of pending happens after new read index */
- rte_smp_mb();
+ rte_atomic_thread_fence(rte_memory_order_seq_cst);
pending_sz = rbr->vbr->pending_send;
if (!pending_sz)
return;
- rte_smp_rmb();
+ rte_atomic_thread_fence(rte_memory_order_acquire);
write_sz = vmbus_br_availwrite(rbr, rbr->vbr->windex);
/* If there was space before then host was not blocked */
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-29 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-29 17:53 [RFC 00/32] remove rte_smp barrier functions Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:53 ` [RFC 01/32] bpf: replace deprecated SMP barriers with C11 fences Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:53 ` [RFC 02/32] test: remove test for rte_smp_mb Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:53 ` [RFC 03/32] bus/vmbus: fix ring buffer ordering on weakly ordered CPUs Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:53 ` [RFC 04/32] bus/vmbus: fix missing acquire on receive ring index Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:53 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2026-07-29 17:53 ` [RFC 06/32] baseband: convert rte_smp_rmb to fence Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 07/32] net/hinic: replace rte_smp_rmb Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 08/32] net/intel: " Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 09/32] crypto_caam_jr: " Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 10/32] net/virtio: replcae rte_smp_rmb Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 11/32] net/thunderx: replace rte_smp_rmb Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 12/32] stack: always use C11 memory model implementation Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 13/32] ring: replace SMP read barrier with C11 acquire fence Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 14/32] crypto/virtio: update comment reference to rte_smp_rmb Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 15/32] event/sw: fix unlinks in progress counter races Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 16/32] event/sw: replace SMP barriers with C11 atomics Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 17/32] eal/x86: move optimized fence out of SMP barrier Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 18/32] common/octeontx: remove redundant barrier in mbox Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 19/32] crypto/caam_jr: use IO barrier before job ring doorbell Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 20/32] crypto/octeontx: use IO barrier before doorbell Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 21/32] mempool/octeontx: use IO barrier in pool destroy Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 22/32] event/octeontx: replace deprecated SMP barriers Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 23/32] event/dpaa2: replace deprecated barrier in selftest Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 24/32] event/dsw: replace SMP barriers with release fences Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 25/32] event/opdl: replace SMP barriers with C11 atomics Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 26/32] net/netvsc: replace SMP barrier in RNDIS response Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 27/32] net/thunderx: replace deprecated SMP barriers Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 28/32] net/virtio: replace deprecated barrier in avail index update Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 29/32] eal: remove stale SMP barrier in rte_service Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 30/32] eal: remove rte_smp_XX Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 31/32] checkpatches: no longer warn about rte_smp_XX Stephen Hemminger
2026-07-29 17:54 ` [RFC 32/32] doc: update release notes about rte_smp_XX removal Stephen Hemminger
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