The spin_trylock() is assumed to contain the implicit barrier needed to ensure the correct ordering between STATE_MISSED setting/clearing and STATE_MISSED checking in commit a90c57f2cedd ("net: sched: fix packet stuck problem for lockless qdisc").
But it turns out that spin_trylock() only has load-acquire semantic, for strongly-ordered system(like x86), the compiler barrier implicitly contained in spin_trylock() seems enough to ensure the correct ordering. But for weakly-orderly system (like arm64), the store-release semantic is needed to ensure the correct ordering as clear_bit() and test_bit() is store operation, see queued_spin_lock().
So add the explicit barrier to ensure the correct ordering for the above case.
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin linyunsheng@huawei.com --- The above ordering issue can easily cause out of order packet problem when testing lockless qdisc bypass patchset [1] with two iperf threads and one netdev queue in arm64 system.
1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/2/1417 --- include/net/sch_generic.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h index 1e62551..5771030 100644 --- a/include/net/sch_generic.h +++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h @@ -163,6 +163,12 @@ static inline bool qdisc_run_begin(struct Qdisc *qdisc) if (spin_trylock(&qdisc->seqlock)) goto nolock_empty;
+ /* Paired with smp_mb__after_atomic() to make sure + * STATE_MISSED checking is synchronized with clearing + * in pfifo_fast_dequeue(). + */ + smp_mb__before_atomic(); + /* If the MISSED flag is set, it means other thread has * set the MISSED flag before second spin_trylock(), so * we can return false here to avoid multi cpus doing @@ -180,6 +186,12 @@ static inline bool qdisc_run_begin(struct Qdisc *qdisc) */ set_bit(__QDISC_STATE_MISSED, &qdisc->state);
+ /* spin_trylock() only has load-acquire semantic, so use + * smp_mb__after_atomic() to ensure STATE_MISSED is set + * before doing the second spin_trylock(). + */ + smp_mb__after_atomic(); + /* Retry again in case other CPU may not see the new flag * after it releases the lock at the end of qdisc_run_end(). */