Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 3/6] libvhost-user: Support tracking inflight I/O in shared memory

[Yongji Xie]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 10:32, Jason Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On 2019/1/22 下午4:31, address@hidden wrote:
> > +static int
> > +vu_queue_inflight_get(VuDev *dev, VuVirtq *vq, int desc_idx)
> > +{
> > +    if (!has_feature(dev->protocol_features,
> > +        VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_INFLIGHT_SHMFD)) {
> > +        return 0;
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    if (unlikely(!vq->inflight)) {
> > +        return -1;
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    vq->inflight->desc[desc_idx].inuse = 1;
> > +
> > +    vq->inflight->desc[desc_idx].avail_idx = vq->last_avail_idx;
> > +
> > +    return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int
> > +vu_queue_inflight_pre_put(VuDev *dev, VuVirtq *vq, int desc_idx)
> > +{
> > +    if (!has_feature(dev->protocol_features,
> > +        VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_INFLIGHT_SHMFD)) {
> > +        return 0;
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    if (unlikely(!vq->inflight)) {
> > +        return -1;
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    vq->inflight->desc[desc_idx].used_idx = vq->used_idx;
> > +
> > +    barrier();
> > +
> > +    vq->inflight->desc[desc_idx].version++;
> > +
> > +    return 0;
> > +}
>
>
> You probably need WRITE_ONCE() semantic (e.g volatile) to make sure the
> value reach memory.
>

The cache line should have been flushed during crash. So we can see
the correct value when backend reconnecting. If so, compile barrier
should be enough here, right?

Thanks,
Yongji