Commit 115e12e5 authored by Stefan Bühler's avatar Stefan Bühler Committed by Jens Axboe

io_uring: remove unnecessary barrier before reading cq head

The memory operations before reading cq head are unrelated and we
don't care about their order.

Document that the control dependency in combination with READ_ONCE and
WRITE_ONCE forms a barrier we need.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Bühler <source@stbuehler.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 4f7067c3
......@@ -431,8 +431,11 @@ static struct io_uring_cqe *io_get_cqring(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx)
unsigned tail;
tail = ctx->cached_cq_tail;
/* See comment at the top of the file */
smp_rmb();
/*
* writes to the cq entry need to come after reading head; the
* control dependency is enough as we're using WRITE_ONCE to
* fill the cq entry
*/
if (tail - READ_ONCE(ring->r.head) == ring->ring_entries)
return NULL;
......
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