From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:32:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:37389 "EHLO SMTP.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S27009352AbcADLcgGit2O (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2016 12:32:36 +0100 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.20,520,1444694400"; d="scan'208";a="322700815" Message-ID: <568A584C.2070501@citrix.com> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 11:32:28 +0000 From: David Vrabel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , CC: , , , Peter Zijlstra , , "H. Peter Anvin" , , Boris Ostrovsky , , , Arnd Bergmann , , , Ingo Molnar , , , Stefano Stabellini , , Thomas Gleixner , , , Andrew Cooper , David Vrabel , , David Miller Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 34/34] xen/io: use virt_xxx barriers References: <1451572003-2440-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <1451572003-2440-35-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1451572003-2440-35-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DLP: MIA1 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 50836 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: david.vrabel@citrix.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips On 31/12/15 19:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > include/xen/interface/io/ring.h uses > full memory barriers to communicate with the other side. > > For guests compiled with CONFIG_SMP, smp_wmb and smp_mb > would be sufficient, so mb() and wmb() here are only needed if > a non-SMP guest runs on an SMP host. > > Switch to virt_xxx barriers which serve this exact purpose. Acked-by: David Vrabel David From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:37389 "EHLO SMTP.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S27009352AbcADLcgGit2O (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2016 12:32:36 +0100 Message-ID: <568A584C.2070501@citrix.com> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 11:32:28 +0000 From: David Vrabel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 34/34] xen/io: use virt_xxx barriers References: <1451572003-2440-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <1451572003-2440-35-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1451572003-2440-35-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Boris Ostrovsky , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , x86@kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Stefano Stabellini , adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Thomas Gleixner , linux-metag@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Andrew Cooper , David Vrabel , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, David Miller Message-ID: <20160104113228.T0c5pCfXEEfkdCJVdQI2tnAkfh_QCAPQ7Tawy_BY2-k@z> On 31/12/15 19:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > include/xen/interface/io/ring.h uses > full memory barriers to communicate with the other side. > > For guests compiled with CONFIG_SMP, smp_wmb and smp_mb > would be sufficient, so mb() and wmb() here are only needed if > a non-SMP guest runs on an SMP host. > > Switch to virt_xxx barriers which serve this exact purpose. Acked-by: David Vrabel David