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ipc,msg: provide barrier pairings for lockless receive
authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:58:39 +0000 (14:58 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 1 Jul 2015 02:44:58 +0000 (19:44 -0700)
commitff35e5ef86fea1fa84eb7fdc939d0b1e3f1222bf
treedcbd89deb61c178925663ce5ad0457f232715a23
parentc5c8975b2eb4eb7604e8ce4f762987f56d2a96a2
ipc,msg: provide barrier pairings for lockless receive

We currently use a full barrier on the sender side to to avoid receiver
tasks disappearing on us while still performing on the sender side wakeup.
 We lack however, the proper CPU-CPU interactions pairing on the receiver
side which busy-waits for the message.  Similarly, we do not need a full
smp_mb, and can relax the semantics for the writer and reader sides of the
message.  This is safe as we are only ordering loads and stores to r_msg.
And in both smp_wmb and smp_rmb, there are no stores after the calls
_anyway_.

This obviously applies for pipelined_send and expunge_all, for EIRDM when
destroying a queue.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ipc/msg.c