On 03/23/13 12:28, Wanlong Gao wrote:
+static struct virtio_scsi_vq *virtscsi_pick_vq(struct virtio_scsi *vscsi, + struct virtio_scsi_target_state *tgt) +{ + struct virtio_scsi_vq *vq; + unsigned long flags; + u32 queue_num; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags); + + /* + * The memory barrier after atomic_inc_return matches + * the smp_read_barrier_depends() in virtscsi_req_done. + */ + if (atomic_inc_return(&tgt->reqs) > 1) + vq = ACCESS_ONCE(tgt->req_vq); + else { + queue_num = smp_processor_id(); + while (unlikely(queue_num >= vscsi->num_queues)) + queue_num -= vscsi->num_queues; + + tgt->req_vq = vq = &vscsi->req_vqs[queue_num]; + } + + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tgt->tgt_lock, flags); + return vq; +}
Is there any reason why the smp_processor_id() % vscsi->num_queues computation in virtscsi_pick_vq() has been implemented as a loop instead of as an arithmetic operation ? If so, I would appreciate it if that could be explained in a comment.
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