Re: [PATCH net-next 03/12] ptr_ring: READ/WRITE_ONCE for __ptr_ring_empty

From: Jason Wang
Date: Thu Jan 25 2018 - 21:38:13 EST




On 2018å01æ26æ 07:36, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
Lockless __ptr_ring_empty requires that consumer head is read and
written at once, atomically. Annotate accordingly to make sure compiler
does it correctly. Switch locked callers to __ptr_ring_peek which does
not support the lockless operation.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/ptr_ring.h | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
index 8594c7b..9a72d8f 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
@@ -196,7 +196,9 @@ static inline void *__ptr_ring_peek(struct ptr_ring *r)
*/
static inline bool __ptr_ring_empty(struct ptr_ring *r)
{
- return !__ptr_ring_peek(r);
+ if (likely(r->size))
+ return !r->queue[READ_ONCE(r->consumer_head)];
+ return true;
}

So after patch 8, __ptr_ring_peek() did:

static inline void *__ptr_ring_peek(struct ptr_ring *r)
{
ÂÂÂ if (likely(r->size))
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ return READ_ONCE(r->queue[r->consumer_head]);
ÂÂÂ return NULL;
}

Looks like a duplication.

Thanks