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Phil Yang
7911ba0473 stack: enable lock-free implementation for aarch64
Enable both C11 atomic and non C11 atomic lock-free stack for aarch64.

Introduced a new header to reduce the ifdef clutter across generic and C11
files. The rte_stack_lf_stubs.h contains stub implementations of
__rte_stack_lf_count, __rte_stack_lf_push_elems and
__rte_stack_lf_pop_elems.

Suggested-by: Gage Eads <gage.eads@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Tested-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
2019-10-21 10:15:57 +02:00
Phil Yang
6146fbb2fe stack: fix sign of list length
clang raise 'pointer-sign' warnings in __atomic_compare_exchange
when passing 'uint64_t *' to parameter of type 'int64_t *' converts
between pointers to integer types with different sign.

Fixes: 7e6e609939 ("stack: add C11 atomic implementation")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Suggested-by: Gage Eads <gage.eads@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Acked-by: Gage Eads <gage.eads@intel.com>
2019-06-27 18:00:59 +02:00
Gage Eads
3340202f59 stack: add lock-free implementation
This commit adds support for a lock-free (linked list based) stack to the
stack API. This behavior is selected through a new rte_stack_create() flag,
RTE_STACK_F_LF.

The stack consists of a linked list of elements, each containing a data
pointer and a next pointer, and an atomic stack depth counter.

The lock-free push operation enqueues a linked list of pointers by pointing
the tail of the list to the current stack head, and using a CAS to swing
the stack head pointer to the head of the list. The operation retries if it
is unsuccessful (i.e. the list changed between reading the head and
modifying it), else it adjusts the stack length and returns.

The lock-free pop operation first reserves num elements by adjusting the
stack length, to ensure the dequeue operation will succeed without
blocking. It then dequeues pointers by walking the list -- starting from
the head -- then swinging the head pointer (using a CAS as well). While
walking the list, the data pointers are recorded in an object table.

This algorithm stack uses a 128-bit compare-and-swap instruction, which
atomically updates the stack top pointer and a modification counter, to
protect against the ABA problem.

The linked list elements themselves are maintained in a lock-free LIFO
list, and are allocated before stack pushes and freed after stack pops.
Since the stack has a fixed maximum depth, these elements do not need to be
dynamically created.

Signed-off-by: Gage Eads <gage.eads@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
2019-04-04 22:06:16 +02:00