[dpdk-dev] [RFC 1/5] eal: add the APIs to wait until equal

[Thomas Monjalon]

01/07/2019 09:16, Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China):
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > Gavin Hu <gavin.hu at arm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > +#ifdef RTE_USE_WFE
> > > +#define rte_wait_until_equal_relaxed(addr, expected) do {\
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> > That is a hot mess.
> > Macro's are harder to maintain and offer no benefit over inline functions.
> 
> During our internal review, I ever used C11 _Generic to generalize the API to take different types of arguments. 

Gavin, the question is about macros versus functions.
Please, could you convert it into an inline function?