[PULL 10/21] vhost: Delete useless read memory barrier

Jason Wang posted 21 patches 2 years, 8 months ago
Maintainers: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>, Eduardo Habkost <eduardo@habkost.net>, Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>, Zhang Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>, Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
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[PULL 10/21] vhost: Delete useless read memory barrier
Posted by Jason Wang 2 years, 8 months ago
From: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>

As discussed in previous series [1], this memory barrier is useless with
the atomic read of used idx at vhost_svq_more_used. Deleting it.

[1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-07/msg02616.html

Signed-off-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
---
 hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c b/hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c
index b35aeef..8df5296 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/vhost-shadow-virtqueue.c
@@ -509,9 +509,6 @@ size_t vhost_svq_poll(VhostShadowVirtqueue *svq)
         if (unlikely(g_get_monotonic_time() - start_us > 10e6)) {
             return 0;
         }
-
-        /* Make sure we read new used_idx */
-        smp_rmb();
     } while (true);
 }
 
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