[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] mbuf: use C11 atomic built-ins for refcnt operations

[Aaron Conole]

David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 5:59 PM Phil Yang <phil.yang at arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> Use C11 atomic built-ins with explicit ordering instead of rte_atomic
>> ops which enforce unnecessary barriers on aarch64.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang at arm.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
>> ---
>> v4:
>> 1. Add union for refcnt_atomic and refcnt in rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info
>> to avoid ABI breakage. (Olivier)
>> 2. Add notice of refcnt_atomic deprecation. (Honnappa)
>
> v4 does not pass the checks (in both my env, and Travis).
> https://travis-ci.com/github/ovsrobot/dpdk/jobs/359393389#L2405
>
> It seems the robot had a hiccup as I can't see a report in the test-report ml.

Hrrm... that has been happening quite a bit.  I'll investigate.