Re: [PATCH 6/7] xen/evtch: use smp barriers for user event ring

[Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 08.02.21 10:38, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 06.02.2021 11:49, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > The ring buffer for user events is used in the local system only, so
> > smp barriers are fine for ensuring consistency.
> >
> > Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Albeit I think "local system" is at least ambiguous (physical
> machine? VM?). How about something like "is local to the given
> kernel instance"?
Yes.


Juergen

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