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Hi Gavin,
There are other sync modes added to rte_ring library. Can you please
extend this to other rte_pause() calls in the library?
Thanks,
Honnappa
> Subject: [PATCH v1 2/2] ring: use wfe to wait for ring tail update on aarch64
>
> Instead of polling for tail to be updated, use wfe instruction.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin...@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.w...@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.cap...@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ola Liljedahl <ola.liljed...@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>
> ---
> lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h | 4 ++--
> lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_generic.h | 3 +--
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h
> b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h
> index 0fb73a337..764d8f186 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
> *
> * Copyright (c) 2017,2018 HXT-semitech Corporation.
> * Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Kip Macy km...@freebsd.org
> + * Copyright (c) 2019 Arm Limited
> * All rights reserved.
> * Derived from FreeBSD's bufring.h
> * Used as BSD-3 Licensed with permission from Kip Macy.
> @@ -21,8 +22,7 @@ update_tail(struct rte_ring_headtail *ht, uint32_t
> old_val, uint32_t new_val,
> * we need to wait for them to complete
> */
> if (!single)
> - while (unlikely(ht->tail != old_val))
> - rte_pause();
> + rte_wait_until_equal_relaxed_32(&ht->tail, old_val);
>
> __atomic_store_n(&ht->tail, new_val, __ATOMIC_RELEASE); } diff --
> git a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_generic.h b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_generic.h
> index 953cdbbd5..682852783 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_generic.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_generic.h
> @@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ update_tail(struct rte_ring_headtail *ht, uint32_t
> old_val, uint32_t new_val,
> * we need to wait for them to complete
> */
> if (!single)
> - while (unlikely(ht->tail != old_val))
> - rte_pause();
> + rte_wait_until_equal_relaxed_32(&ht->tail, old_val);
>
> ht->tail = new_val;
> }
> --
> 2.17.1
