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rcu: simplify memory barriers

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Thanks to the acquire semantics of qemu_event_reset and qemu_event_wait,
some memory barriers can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Paolo Bonzini 2016-09-19 11:27:46 +02:00
parent 374293ca6f
commit e11131b025
1 changed files with 5 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -82,14 +82,16 @@ static void wait_for_readers(void)
/* Instead of using atomic_mb_set for index->waiting, and
* atomic_mb_read for index->ctr, memory barriers are placed
* manually since writes to different threads are independent.
* atomic_mb_set has a smp_wmb before...
* qemu_event_reset has acquire semantics, so no memory barrier
* is needed here.
*/
smp_wmb();
QLIST_FOREACH(index, &registry, node) {
atomic_set(&index->waiting, true);
}
/* ... and a smp_mb after. */
/* Here, order the stores to index->waiting before the
* loads of index->ctr.
*/
smp_mb();
QLIST_FOREACH_SAFE(index, &registry, node, tmp) {
@ -104,9 +106,6 @@ static void wait_for_readers(void)
}
}
/* atomic_mb_read has smp_rmb after. */
smp_rmb();
if (QLIST_EMPTY(&registry)) {
break;
}