Re: [PATCH V7 4/5] virtio-scsi: introduce multiqueue support

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>]

On 03/23/13 12:28, Wanlong Gao wrote:
> +static struct virtio_scsi_vq *virtscsi_pick_vq(struct virtio_scsi *vscsi,
> +					       struct virtio_scsi_target_state *tgt)
> +{
> +	struct virtio_scsi_vq *vq;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +	u32 queue_num;
> +
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * The memory barrier after atomic_inc_return matches
> +	 * the smp_read_barrier_depends() in virtscsi_req_done.
> +	 */
> +	if (atomic_inc_return(&tgt->reqs) > 1)
> +		vq = ACCESS_ONCE(tgt->req_vq);
> +	else {
> +		queue_num = smp_processor_id();
> +		while (unlikely(queue_num >= vscsi->num_queues))
> +			queue_num -= vscsi->num_queues;
> +
> +		tgt->req_vq = vq = &vscsi->req_vqs[queue_num];
> +	}
> +
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags);
> +	return vq;
> +}

Is there any reason why the smp_processor_id() % vscsi->num_queues 
computation in virtscsi_pick_vq() has been implemented as a loop instead 
of as an arithmetic operation ? If so, I would appreciate it if that 
could be explained in a comment.

Thanks,

Bart.