Hi Honnappa,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 12:57
> To: Ruifeng Wang (Arm Technology China) <ruifeng.w...@arm.com>;
> vladimir.medved...@intel.com; bruce.richard...@intel.com
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China) <gavin...@arm.com>;
> nd <n...@arm.com>; Ruifeng Wang (Arm Technology China)
> <ruifeng.w...@arm.com>; Honnappa Nagarahalli
> <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>; nd <n...@arm.com>
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 3/3] lib/lpm: use atomic store to avoid partial update
>
> >
> > Compiler could generate non-atomic stores for whole table entry updating.
> > This may cause incorrect nexthop to be returned, if the byte with
> > valid flag is updated prior to the byte with next hot is updated.
> ^^^^^^^ Should be
> nexthop
>
> >
> > Changed to use atomic store to update whole table entry.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Medvedkin Vladimir <vladimir.medved...@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.w...@arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin...@arm.com>
> > ---
> > v4: initial version
> >
> > lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> > 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c b/lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c index
> > baa6e7460..5d1dbd7e6 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c
> > @@ -767,7 +767,9 @@ add_depth_small_v20(struct rte_lpm_v20 *lpm,
> > uint32_t ip, uint8_t depth,
> > * Setting tbl8 entry in one go to avoid
> > * race conditions
> > */
> > - lpm->tbl8[j] = new_tbl8_entry;
> > + __atomic_store(&lpm->tbl8[j],
> > + &new_tbl8_entry,
> > + __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> >
> > continue;
> > }
> > @@ -837,7 +839,9 @@ add_depth_small_v1604(struct rte_lpm *lpm,
> > uint32_t ip, uint8_t depth,
> > * Setting tbl8 entry in one go to avoid
> > * race conditions
> > */
> > - lpm->tbl8[j] = new_tbl8_entry;
> > + __atomic_store(&lpm->tbl8[j],
> > + &new_tbl8_entry,
> > + __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> >
> > continue;
> > }
> > @@ -965,7 +969,8 @@ add_depth_big_v20(struct rte_lpm_v20 *lpm,
> > uint32_t ip_masked, uint8_t depth,
> > * Setting tbl8 entry in one go to avoid race
> > * condition
> > */
> > - lpm->tbl8[i] = new_tbl8_entry;
> > + __atomic_store(&lpm->tbl8[i],
> > &new_tbl8_entry,
> > + __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> >
> > continue;
> > }
> > @@ -1100,7 +1105,8 @@ add_depth_big_v1604(struct rte_lpm *lpm,
> > uint32_t ip_masked, uint8_t depth,
> > * Setting tbl8 entry in one go to avoid race
> > * condition
> > */
> > - lpm->tbl8[i] = new_tbl8_entry;
> > + __atomic_store(&lpm->tbl8[i],
> > &new_tbl8_entry,
> > + __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> >
> > continue;
> > }
> > @@ -1393,7 +1399,9 @@ delete_depth_small_v20(struct rte_lpm_v20
> *lpm,
> > uint32_t ip_masked,
> >
> > RTE_LPM_TBL8_GROUP_NUM_ENTRIES); j++) {
> >
> > if (lpm->tbl8[j].depth <= depth)
> > - lpm->tbl8[j] =
> > new_tbl8_entry;
> > + __atomic_store(&lpm-
> >tbl8[j],
> > + &new_tbl8_entry,
> > + __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > @@ -1490,7 +1498,9 @@ delete_depth_small_v1604(struct rte_lpm *lpm,
> > uint32_t ip_masked,
> >
> > RTE_LPM_TBL8_GROUP_NUM_ENTRIES); j++) {
> >
> > if (lpm->tbl8[j].depth <= depth)
> > - lpm->tbl8[j] =
> > new_tbl8_entry;
> > + __atomic_store(&lpm-
> >tbl8[j],
> > + &new_tbl8_entry,
> > + __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > @@ -1646,7 +1656,8 @@ delete_depth_big_v20(struct rte_lpm_v20 *lpm,
> > uint32_t ip_masked,
> > */
> > for (i = tbl8_index; i < (tbl8_index + tbl8_range); i++) {
> > if (lpm->tbl8[i].depth <= depth)
> > - lpm->tbl8[i] = new_tbl8_entry;
> > + __atomic_store(&lpm->tbl8[i],
> > &new_tbl8_entry,
> > + __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> > }
> > }
> >
> > @@ -1677,7 +1688,8 @@ delete_depth_big_v20(struct rte_lpm_v20 *lpm,
> > uint32_t ip_masked,
> > /* Set tbl24 before freeing tbl8 to avoid race condition.
> > * Prevent the free of the tbl8 group from hoisting.
> > */
> > - lpm->tbl24[tbl24_index] = new_tbl24_entry;
> > + __atomic_store(&lpm->tbl24[tbl24_index],
> > &new_tbl24_entry,
> > + __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> > __atomic_thread_fence(__ATOMIC_RELEASE);
> > tbl8_free_v20(lpm->tbl8, tbl8_group_start);
> tbl8_alloc_v20/tbl8_free_v20 need to be updated to use __atomic_store
>
tbl8_alloc_v20/tbl8_free_v20 updates a single field of table entry. The process
is already atomic. Do we really need to use __atomic_store?
> > }
> > @@ -1730,7 +1742,8 @@ delete_depth_big_v1604(struct rte_lpm *lpm,
> > uint32_t ip_masked,
> > */
> > for (i = tbl8_index; i < (tbl8_index + tbl8_range); i++) {
> > if (lpm->tbl8[i].depth <= depth)
> > - lpm->tbl8[i] = new_tbl8_entry;
> > + __atomic_store(&lpm->tbl8[i],
> > &new_tbl8_entry,
> > + __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> > }
> > }
> >
> > @@ -1761,7 +1774,8 @@ delete_depth_big_v1604(struct rte_lpm *lpm,
> > uint32_t ip_masked,
> > /* Set tbl24 before freeing tbl8 to avoid race condition.
> > * Prevent the free of the tbl8 group from hoisting.
> > */
> > - lpm->tbl24[tbl24_index] = new_tbl24_entry;
> > + __atomic_store(&lpm->tbl24[tbl24_index],
> > &new_tbl24_entry,
> > + __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
> > __atomic_thread_fence(__ATOMIC_RELEASE);
> > tbl8_free_v1604(lpm->tbl8, tbl8_group_start);
> tbl8_alloc_v1604 /tbl8_free_v1604 need to be updated to use
> __atomic_store
Ditto.
>
> > }
> > --
> > 2.17.1
