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[dpdk-dev,01/28] eal: introduce I/O device memory barriers

Message ID 1481680558-4003-2-git-send-email-jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Jerin Jacob Dec. 14, 2016, 1:55 a.m. UTC 
  This commit introduce rte_io_mb(), rte_io_wmb() and rte_io_rmb(), in
order to enable memory barriers between I/O device and CPU.

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
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 lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_atomic.h | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_atomic.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_atomic.h
index 43a704e..7b81705 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_atomic.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_atomic.h
@@ -100,6 +100,33 @@  static inline void rte_smp_wmb(void);
  */
 static inline void rte_smp_rmb(void);
 
+/**
+ * General memory barrier for I/O device
+ *
+ * Guarantees that the LOAD and STORE operations that precede the
+ * rte_io_mb() call are visible to I/O device or CPU before the
+ * LOAD and STORE operations that follow it.
+ */
+static inline void rte_io_mb(void);
+
+/**
+ * Write memory barrier for I/O device
+ *
+ * Guarantees that the STORE operations that precede the
+ * rte_io_wmb() call are visible to I/O device before the STORE
+ * operations that follow it.
+ */
+static inline void rte_io_wmb(void);
+
+/**
+ * Read memory barrier for IO device
+ *
+ * Guarantees that the LOAD operations on I/O device that precede the
+ * rte_io_rmb() call are visible to CPU before the LOAD
+ * operations that follow it.
+ */
+static inline void rte_io_rmb(void);
+
 #endif /* __DOXYGEN__ */
 
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