Re: [RFC v3 3/5] virtio_ring: add packed ring support

From: Jason Wang
Date: Thu May 10 2018 - 03:35:01 EST




On 2018å05æ10æ 15:32, Jason Wang wrote:


On 2018å04æ25æ 13:15, Tiwei Bie wrote:
+ÂÂÂ /* We're using some buffers from the free list. */
+ÂÂÂ vq->vq.num_free -= descs_used;
+
+ÂÂÂ /* Update free pointer */
+ÂÂÂ if (indirect) {
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ n = head + 1;
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ if (n >= vq->vring_packed.num) {
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ n = 0;
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ vq->wrap_counter ^= 1;
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ }
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ vq->next_avail_idx = n;
+ÂÂÂ } else
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ vq->next_avail_idx = i;

During testing zerocopy (out of order completion), I found driver may submit two identical buffer id to vhost. So the above code may not work well.

Consider the case that driver adds 3 buffer and virtqueue size is 8.

a) id = 0,count = 2,next_avail = 2

b) id = 2,count = 4,next_avail = 2

next_avail should be 6 here.


c) id = 4,count = 2,next_avail = 0


id should be 6 here.

Thanks

if packet b is done before packet a, driver may think buffer id 0 is available and try to use it if even if the real buffer 0 was not done.

Thanks
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