[PATCH v7 02/14] eal: use rtm and xtest intrinsics

Tyler Retzlaff roretzla at linux.microsoft.com
Mon Apr 17 18:10:26 CEST 2023


Inline assembly is not supported for MSVC x64. Convert code to use
_xend, _xabort and _xtest intrinsics.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla at linux.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.v.ananyev at yandex.ru>
Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
---
 config/x86/meson.build        |  6 ++++++
 lib/eal/x86/include/rte_rtm.h | 18 +++++-------------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config/x86/meson.build b/config/x86/meson.build
index 54345c4..4c0b06c 100644
--- a/config/x86/meson.build
+++ b/config/x86/meson.build
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ if cc.get_define('__SSE4_2__', args: machine_args) == ''
     machine_args += '-msse4'
 endif
 
+# enable restricted transactional memory intrinsics
+# https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/x86-transactional-memory-intrinsics.html
+if cc.get_id() != 'msvc'
+    machine_args += '-mrtm'
+endif
+
 base_flags = ['SSE', 'SSE2', 'SSE3','SSSE3', 'SSE4_1', 'SSE4_2']
 foreach f:base_flags
     compile_time_cpuflags += ['RTE_CPUFLAG_' + f]
diff --git a/lib/eal/x86/include/rte_rtm.h b/lib/eal/x86/include/rte_rtm.h
index 36bf498..b84e58e 100644
--- a/lib/eal/x86/include/rte_rtm.h
+++ b/lib/eal/x86/include/rte_rtm.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #ifndef _RTE_RTM_H_
 #define _RTE_RTM_H_ 1
 
+#include <immintrin.h>
 
 /* Official RTM intrinsics interface matching gcc/icc, but works
    on older gcc compatible compilers and binutils. */
@@ -28,31 +29,22 @@
 static __rte_always_inline
 unsigned int rte_xbegin(void)
 {
-	unsigned int ret = RTE_XBEGIN_STARTED;
-
-	asm volatile(".byte 0xc7,0xf8 ; .long 0" : "+a" (ret) :: "memory");
-	return ret;
+	return _xbegin();
 }
 
 static __rte_always_inline
 void rte_xend(void)
 {
-	 asm volatile(".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xd5" ::: "memory");
+	_xend();
 }
 
 /* not an inline function to workaround a clang bug with -O0 */
-#define rte_xabort(status) do { \
-	asm volatile(".byte 0xc6,0xf8,%P0" :: "i" (status) : "memory"); \
-} while (0)
+#define rte_xabort(status) _xabort(status)
 
 static __rte_always_inline
 int rte_xtest(void)
 {
-	unsigned char out;
-
-	asm volatile(".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xd6 ; setnz %0" :
-		"=r" (out) :: "memory");
-	return out;
+	return _xtest();
 }
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
-- 
1.8.3.1



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