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From: Alex Kiselev <kiselev99@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: release/acquire memory barriers and ring
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:43:01 +0300
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I am sorry. I should've posted to the user list of couse.
My mistake.

2018-02-13 22:37 GMT+03:00 Alex Kiselev <kiselev99@gmail.com>:
> Hi.
>
> I've been wondering should I use a release/acquire memory barrier pair
> in order to be sure that the other thread will see the fully/corrected
> initialized object
> passed to it via a dpdk ring or ring itself is a kind of barrier?
>
> Let's say I have a pseudo code:
>
> Thread1:
> obj = alloc();
> ...
> obj initialization
> ...
>
> ??? fence(memory_order_release); ???
> rte_ring_sp_enqueue(ring, obj)
>
>
> Thread2:
> ??? fence(memory_order_acquire); ???
> rte_ring_sc_dequeue(ring, obj)
>
> Should I use fences in that code?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Alex