Re: [PATCH 6/7] xen/evtch: use smp barriers for user event ring

Jürgen Groß
2021-02-08T09:54:46Z

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On 08.02.21 10:38, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 06.02.2021 11:49, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> The ring buffer for user events is used in the local system only, so
>> smp barriers are fine for ensuring consistency.
>>
>> Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>
> Albeit I think "local system" is at least ambiguous (physical
> machine? VM?). How about something like "is local to the given
> kernel instance"?

Yes.

Juergen

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