vhost: relax full barriers for desc flags

Relax the full read barrier to one-way barrier for desc flags in
packed vring.

Signed-off-by: Joyce Kong <joyce.kong@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
index c912ae3..b779034 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
+++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
@@ -222,8 +222,9 @@ vhost_flush_dequeue_shadow_packed(struct virtio_net *dev,
        struct vring_used_elem_packed *used_elem = &vq->shadow_used_packed[0];
 
        vq->desc_packed[vq->shadow_last_used_idx].id = used_elem->id;
-       rte_smp_wmb();
-       vq->desc_packed[vq->shadow_last_used_idx].flags = used_elem->flags;
+       /* desc flags is the synchronization point for virtio packed vring */
+       __atomic_store_n(&vq->desc_packed[vq->shadow_last_used_idx].flags,
+                        used_elem->flags, __ATOMIC_RELEASE);
 
        vhost_log_cache_used_vring(dev, vq, vq->shadow_last_used_idx *
                                   sizeof(struct vring_packed_desc),