-----Original Message-----
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:40:53 +0000
> From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>
> To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com>, Ola Liljedahl
> <ola.liljed...@arm.com>
> CC: "Kokkilagadda, Kiran" <kiran.kokkilaga...@cavium.com>, "Gavin Hu
> (Arm Technology China)" <gavin...@arm.com>, Ferruh Yigit
> <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>, "Jacob, Jerin"
> <jerin.jacobkollanukka...@cavium.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
> nd <n...@arm.com>, Steve Capper <steve.cap...@arm.com>, "Phil Yang (Arm
> Technology China)" <phil.y...@arm.com>
> Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: fix kni Rx fifo producer
> synchronization
>
>
> Hi Jerin,
> Is there any reason for having 'RTE_RING_USE_C11_MEM_MODEL', which is
> specific to rte_ring? I do not see a need for choosing only some algorithms
> to work with C11 model. I suggest that we change this to
> 'RTE_USE_C11_MEM_MODEL' so that it can apply to all libraries/algorithms.
Yes. Makes sense to me to keep only single config option.
rte_ring has 2 sets of algorithms for Arm architecture, one with C11 memory
model and the other with barriers. Going forward (for ex: for KNI), I think we
should support C11 memory model only and skip the barriers.
Also, do you see any issues in making C11 memory model default for Arm
architecture?
>
> Thank you,
> Honnappa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 3:58 AM
> To: Ola Liljedahl <ola.liljed...@arm.com>
> Cc: Kokkilagadda, Kiran <kiran.kokkilaga...@cavium.com>; Honnappa
> Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>; Gavin Hu
> <gavin...@arm.com>; Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>; Jacob,
> Jerin <jerin.jacobkollanukka...@cavium.com>; dev@dpdk.org; nd
> <n...@arm.com>; Steve Capper <steve.cap...@arm.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: fix kni Rx fifo producer
> synchronization
>
> -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 08:47:56 +0000
> > From: Ola Liljedahl <ola.liljed...@arm.com>
> > To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com>
> > CC: "Kokkilagadda, Kiran" <kiran.kokkilaga...@cavium.com>, Honnappa
> > Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>, Gavin Hu
> > <gavin...@arm.com>, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>, "Jacob, Jerin"
> > <jerin.jacobkollanukka...@cavium.com>, "dev@dpdk.org"
> > <dev@dpdk.org>, nd <n...@arm.com>, Steve Capper
> > <steve.cap...@arm.com>
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: fix kni Rx fifo producer
> > synchronization
> > user-agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/10.10.0.180812
> >
> >
> > There was a mention of rte_ring which is a different data structure. But
> > perhaps I misunderstood why this was mentioned and the idea was only to use
> > the C11 memory model as is also used in rte_ring nowadays.
> >
> > But why would we have different code for x86 and for other architectures
> > (ARM, Power)? If we use the C11 memory model (and e.g. GCC __atomic
> > builtins), the code generated for x86 will be the same.
> > __atomic_load(__ATOMIC_ACQUIRE) and __atomic_store(__ATOMIC_RELEASE) should
> > translate to plain loads and stores on x86?
>
> # One reason was __atomic builtins primitives were implemented in gcc 4.7
> and x86 would like to support < gcc 4.7 and ICC compiler.
> # The theme was no change in the existing code for x86.I am not sure about
> the code generation for x86 with __atomic builtins, I let x86 maintainers to
> comments on this.
>
>
> >
> > -- Ola
> >
> > On 29/08/2018, 10:28, "Jerin Jacob" <jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > > Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 07:34:34 +0000
> > > From: Ola Liljedahl <ola.liljed...@arm.com>
> > > To: "Kokkilagadda, Kiran" <kiran.kokkilaga...@cavium.com>, Honnappa
> > > Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>, Gavin Hu
> > <gavin...@arm.com>,
> > > Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>, "Jacob, Jerin"
> > > <jerin.jacobkollanukka...@cavium.com>
> > > CC: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, nd <n...@arm.com>, Steve Capper
> > > <steve.cap...@arm.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: fix kni Rx fifo producer
> > > synchronization
> > > user-agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/10.10.0.180812
> > >
> > > Is the rte_kni kernel/user binary interface subject to backwards
> > compatibility requirements? Or can we change it for a new DPDK release?
> >
> > What would be the change in interface? Is it removing the volatile for
> > C11 case, Then you can use anonymous union OR #define to keep the size
> > and offset of the element intact.
> >
> > struct rte_kni_fifo {
> > #ifndef RTE_C11...
> > volatile unsigned write; /**< Next position to be written*/
> > volatile unsigned read; /**< Next position to be read */
> > #else
> > unsigned write; /**< Next position to be written*/
> > unsigned read; /**< Next position to be read */
> > #endif
> > unsigned len; /**< Circular buffer length */
> > unsigned elem_size; /**< Pointer size - for 32/64
> > bitOS */
> > void *volatile buffer[]; /**< The buffer contains mbuf
> > pointers */
> > };
> >
> > Anonymous union example:
> > https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h#n461
> >
> > You can check the ABI breakage by devtools/validate-abi.sh
> >
> > >
> > > -- Ola
> > >
> > > From: "Kokkilagadda, Kiran" <kiran.kokkilaga...@cavium.com>
> > > Date: Wednesday, 29 August 2018 at 07:50
> > > To: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>, Gavin Hu
> > <gavin...@arm.com>, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>, "Jacob, Jerin"
> > <jerin.jacobkollanukka...@cavium.com>
> > > Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, nd <n...@arm.com>, Ola Liljedahl
> > <ola.liljed...@arm.com>, Steve Capper <steve.cap...@arm.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: fix kni Rx fifo producer
> > synchronization
> > >
> > >
> > > Agreed. Please go a head and make the changes. You need to make same
> > change in kernel side also. And please use c11 ring (see rte_ring)
> > mechanism so that it won't impact other platforms like intel. We need this
> > change just for arm and ppc.
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 10:29 AM
> > > To: Gavin Hu; Kokkilagadda, Kiran; Ferruh Yigit; Jacob, Jerin
> > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; nd; Ola Liljedahl; Steve Capper
> > > Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: fix kni Rx fifo producer
> > synchronization
> > >
> > >
> > > External Email
> > >
> > > I agree with Gavin here. Store to fifo->write and fifo->read can get
> > hoisted resulting in accessing invalid buffer array entries or over writing
> > of the buffer array entries.
> > >
> > > IMO, we should solve this using c11 atomics. This will also help
> > remove the use of ‘volatile’ from ‘rte_kni_fifo’ structure.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > If you want us to put together a patch with this idea, please let us
> > know.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > >
> > > Honnappa
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Gavin Hu
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 2:31 PM
> > > To: Kokkilagadda, Kiran <kiran.kokkilaga...@cavium.com>; Ferruh Yigit
> > <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>; Jacob, Jerin <jerin.jacobkollanukka...@cavium.com>
> > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Honnappa Nagarahalli
> > <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>; nd <n...@arm.com>; Ola Liljedahl
> > <ola.liljed...@arm.com>; Steve Capper <steve.cap...@arm.com>
> > > Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: fix kni Rx fifo producer
> > synchronization
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Assuming reader and writer may execute on different CPU's, this
> > become standard multithreaded programming.
> > >
> > > We are concerned about that update the reader pointer too early(weak
> > ordering may reorder it before reading from the slots), that means the
> > slots are released and may immediately overwritten by the writer then you
> > get “too new” data and get lost of the old data.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Kokkilagadda, Kiran
> > <kiran.kokkilaga...@cavium.com<mailto:kiran.kokkilaga...@cavium.com>>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 6:44 PM
> > > To: Gavin Hu <gavin...@arm.com<mailto:gavin...@arm.com>>; Ferruh
> > Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com<mailto:ferruh.yi...@intel.com>>; Jacob, Jerin
> > <jerin.jacobkollanukka...@cavium.com<mailto:jerin.jacobkollanukka...@cavium.com>>
> > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org<mailto:dev@dpdk.org>; Honnappa Nagarahalli
> > <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com<mailto:honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>>
> > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: fix kni Rx fifo producer
> > synchronization
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > In this instance there won't be any problem, as until the value of
> > fifo->write changes, this loop won't get executed. As of now we didn't see
> > any issue with it and for performance reasons, we don't want to keep read
> > barrier.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > >
> > > From: Gavin Hu <gavin...@arm.com<mailto:gavin...@arm.com>>
> > > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 9:10 PM
> > > To: Ferruh Yigit; Kokkilagadda, Kiran; Jacob, Jerin
> > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org<mailto:dev@dpdk.org>; Honnappa Nagarahalli
> > > Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: fix kni Rx fifo producer
> > synchronization
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > External Email
> > >
> > > This fix is not complete, kni_fifo_get requires a read fence also,
> > otherwise it probably gets stale data on a weak ordering platform.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: dev <dev-boun...@dpdk.org<mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org>> On
> > Behalf Of Ferruh Yigit
> > > > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 10:08 PM
> > > > To: Kiran Kumar
> > <kkokkilaga...@caviumnetworks.com<mailto:kkokkilaga...@caviumnetworks.com>>;
> > > >
> > jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com<mailto:jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com>
> > > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org<mailto:dev@dpdk.org>
> > > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: fix kni Rx fifo producer
> > > > synchronization
> > > >
> > > > On 8/16/2018 10:55 AM, Kiran Kumar wrote:
> > > > > With existing code in kni_fifo_put, rx_q values are not being
> > updated
> > > > > before updating fifo_write. While reading rx_q in
> > kni_net_rx_normal,
> > > > > This is causing the sync issue on other core. So adding a write
> > > > > barrier to make sure the values being synced before updating
> > fifo_write.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fixes: 3fc5ca2f6352 ("kni: initial import")
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Kiran Kumar
> > <kkokkilaga...@caviumnetworks.com<mailto:kkokkilaga...@caviumnetworks.com>>
> > > > > Acked-by: Jerin Jacob
> > <jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com<mailto:jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com>>
> > > >
> > > > Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit
> > <ferruh.yi...@intel.com<mailto:ferruh.yi...@intel.com>>
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