[RFC] virtio: use mandatory barriers for remote processor vdevs

Rusty Russell rusty at rustcorp.com.au
Wed Nov 30 21:28:59 EST 2011


On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 01:13:07 +0200, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com> wrote:
> For x86, stores into memory are ordered. So I think that yes, smp_XXX
> can be selected at compile time.
> 
> So let's forget the virtio strangeness for a minute,

Hmm, we got away with light barriers because we knew we were not
*really* talking to a device.  But now with virtio-mmio, turns out we
are :)

I'm really tempted to revert d57ed95 for 3.2, and we can revisit this
optimization later if it proves worthwhile.

Thoughts?
Rusty. 



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