Re: [PATCH] eal/ppc: remove fix of memory barrier for IBM POWER

[Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>]

Hi,

For ppc, rte_io_mb() is defined as rte_mb(), which is defined as asm sync.
According to comments in arch/ppc_64/rte_atomic.h, rte_wmb() and rte_rmb() are the same as rte_mb(), for store and load respectively.
My patch propose to define rte_wmb() and rte_rmb() as asm sync, like rte_mb(), since using lwsync is incorrect for them.

Regards,
Dekel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 5:24 AM
> To: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>; Shahaf Shuler
> <shahafs@mellanox.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>;
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] eal/ppc: remove fix of memory barrier for IBM POWER
> 
> Dekel£¬
> 
> To control the memory order for device memory, I think you should use
> rte_io_mb() instead of rte_mb(). This will generate correct result. rte_wmb()
> is used for system memory.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
> > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 8:58 PM
> > To: chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com
> > Cc: yskoh@mellanox.com; shahafs@mellanox.com; dev@dpdk.org;
> > orika@mellanox.com; thomas@monjalon.net; dekelp@mellanox.com;
> > stable@dpdk.org
> > Subject: [PATCH] eal/ppc: remove fix of memory barrier for IBM POWER
> >
> > From previous patch description: "to improve performance on PPC64, use
> > light weight sync instruction instead of sync instruction."
> >
> > Excerpt from IBM doc [1], section "Memory barrier instructions":
> > "The second form of the sync instruction is light-weight sync, or lwsync.
> > This form is used to control ordering for storage accesses to system
> > memory only. It does not create a memory barrier for accesses to device
> memory."
> >
> > This patch removes the use of lwsync, so calls to rte_wmb() and
> > rte_rmb() will provide correct memory barrier to ensure order of
> > accesses to system memory and device memory.
> >
> > [1]
> >
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> > Fixes: d23a6bd04d72 ("eal/ppc: fix memory barrier for IBM POWER")
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_atomic.h | 8 --------
> >  1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_atomic.h
> > b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_atomic.h
> > index ce38350..797381c 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_atomic.h
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_atomic.h
> > @@ -63,11 +63,7 @@
> >   * Guarantees that the STORE operations generated before the barrier
> >   * occur before the STORE operations generated after.
> >   */
> > -#ifdef RTE_ARCH_64
> > -#define	rte_wmb() asm volatile("lwsync" : : : "memory")
> > -#else
> >  #define	rte_wmb() asm volatile("sync" : : : "memory")
> > -#endif
> >
> >  /**
> >   * Read memory barrier.
> > @@ -75,11 +71,7 @@
> >   * Guarantees that the LOAD operations generated before the barrier
> >   * occur before the LOAD operations generated after.
> >   */
> > -#ifdef RTE_ARCH_64
> > -#define	rte_rmb() asm volatile("lwsync" : : : "memory")
> > -#else
> >  #define	rte_rmb() asm volatile("sync" : : : "memory")
> > -#endif
> >
> >  #define rte_smp_mb() rte_mb()
> >
> > --
> > 1.8.3.1
> 
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