On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 05:34:21PM +0000, Honnappa Nagarahalli wrote: > <snip> > > > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to open a discussion about RHEL 7 support in DPDK. > > How long do we want to support it in new DPDK versions? > > Can we drop RHEL 7 support starting DPDK 21.11? > I think the concerns were from Redhat and Intel. > > > > > If we decide to drop RHEL 7 support, does it mean we can generally use > > standard C11 atomics? > What is the next RHEL version we support officially? > If we adopt C11 atomic APIs, we need to think about windows support too.
fwiw i don't think there is an issue with windows support for clang/mingw they implement C11 stdatomic.h
