net/memif: relax load of ring head for M2S ring

For M2S rings, ring->head is updated by the receiver and eth_memif_rx
function is called in the context of receiving thread. The loads in
the receiver do not need to synchronize with its own stores.

Fixes: a2aafb9aa651 ("net/memif: optimize with one-way barrier")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Grajciar <jgrajcia@cisco.com>
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Honnappa Nagarahalli 2020-09-28 14:03:29 -05:00 committed by Ferruh Yigit
parent 8276602780
commit 562fc6ef14

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@ -410,7 +410,11 @@ no_free_bufs:
refill:
if (type == MEMIF_RING_M2S) {
head = __atomic_load_n(&ring->head, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
/* ring->head is updated by the receiver and this function
* is called in the context of receiver thread. The loads in
* the receiver do not need to synchronize with its own stores.
*/
head = __atomic_load_n(&ring->head, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
n_slots = ring_size - head + mq->last_tail;
while (n_slots--) {