<snip> > Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce adoption of C11 atomic operations semantics > > From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com> > > As agreed in the DPDK tech board [1], after 20.05 release, patches must use > C11 atomic operations semantics with the help of wrappers. > > [1] http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-April/165143.html As noted in the minutes, this has been approved in the tech-board. Can I get some ACKs for this patch?
> > Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com> > Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.y...@arm.com> > Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.w...@arm.com> > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index 20aa745..208708d 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -113,3 +113,15 @@ Deprecation Notices > Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11. > In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running > scripts with Python 2. > + > +* rte_atomicNN_xxx: These APIs do not take memory order parameter. This > +does > + not allow for writing optimized code for all the CPU architectures > +supported > + in DPDK. DPDK will adopt C11 atomic operations semantics and provide > +wrappers > + using C11 atomic built-ins. These wrappers must be used for patches > +that > + need to be merged in 20.08 onwards. > + > +* rte_smp_*mb: These APIs provide full barrier functionality. However, > +many > + use cases do not require full barriers. To support such use cases, > +DPDK will > + adopt C11 barrier semantics and provide wrappers using C11 atomic built- > ins. > + These wrappers must be used for patches that need to be merged in > +20.08 > + onwards. > -- > 2.7.4
