[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: update atomic operation deprecation

[Honnappa Nagarahalli]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2021 3:27 PM
> To: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>; Ruifeng Wang
> <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com>; Joyce Kong <Joyce.Kong at arm.com>
> Cc: stephen at networkplumber.org; mdr at ashroe.eu; dev at dpdk.org; nd
> <nd at arm.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: update atomic operation deprecation
> 
> 23/07/2021 11:49, Joyce Kong:
> > Update the incorrect description about atomic operations with provided
> > wrappers in deprecation doc[1].
> >
> > [1]https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-July/213333.html
> >
> > Fixes: 7518c5c4ae6a ("doc: announce adoption of C11 atomic operations
> > semantics")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joyce Kong <joyce.kong at arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
> 
> Applied, thanks.
> 
> Considering all the questions regarding usage of atomics, I still think we need a
> documentation about their correct use.
I think few things to document are:
1) Use of __atomic_add_fetch vs __atomic_fetch_add
2) Using __ATOMIC_RELAXED for statistics
3) Using rte_atomic_thread_fence API

Anything else?


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