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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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