rtio: Shareable lock-free iodevs
By using an mpsc queue for each iodev, the iodev itself is shareable across
contexts. Since its lock free, submits may occur even from an ISR context.
Rather than a fixed size queue, and with it the possibility of running
out of pre-allocated spots, each iodev now holds a wait-free mpsc
queue head.
This changes the parameter of iodev submit to be a struct containing 4
pointers for the rtio context, the submission queue entry, and the mpsc
node for the iodevs submission queue.
This solves the problem involving busy iodevs working with real
devices. For example a busy SPI bus driver could enqueue, without locking,
a request to start once the current request is done.
The queue entries are expected to be owned and allocated by the
executor rather than the iodev. This helps simplify potential
tuning knobs to one place, the RTIO context and its executor an
application directly uses.
As the test case shows iodevs can operate effectively lock free
with the mpsc queue and a single atomic denoting the current task.
Signed-off-by:
Tom Burdick <thomas.burdick@intel.com>
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