In the rpc server, When something happens that might be reason to wake
up a thread to do something, what we do is
- modify xpt_flags, sk_sock->flags, xpt_reserved, or
xpt_nr_rqsts to indicate the new situation
- call svc_xprt_enqueue() to decide whether to wake up a thread.
svc_xprt_enqueue may require multiple conditions to be true before
queueing up a thread to handle the xprt. In the SMP case, one of the
other CPU's may have set another required condition, and in that case,
although both CPUs run svc_xprt_enqueue(), it's possible that neither
call sees the writes done by the other CPU in time, and neither one
recognizes that all the required conditions have been set. A socket
could therefore be ignored indefinitely.
Add memory barries to ensure that any svc_xprt_enqueue() call will
always see the conditions changed by other CPUs before deciding to
ignore a socket.
I've never seen this race reported. In the unlikely event it happens,
another event will usually come along and the problem will fix itself.
So I don't think this is worth backporting to stable.
Chuck tried this patch and said "I don't see any performance
regressions, but my server has only a single last-level CPU cache."
Tested-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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