[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/10] generic rte atomic APIs deprecate proposal

[Phil Yang]

DPDK provides generic rte_atomic APIs to do several atomic operations.
These APIs are using the deprecated __sync built-ins and enforce full
memory barriers on aarch64. However, full barriers are not necessary
in many use cases. In order to address such use cases, C language offers
C11 atomic APIs. The C11 atomic APIs provide finer memory barrier control
by making use of the memory ordering parameter provided by the user.
Various patches submitted in the past [1] and the patches in this series
indicate significant performance gains on multiple aarch64 CPUs and no
performance loss on x86.

But the existing rte_atomic API implementations cannot be changed as the
APIs do not take the memory ordering parameter. The only choice available
is replacing the usage of the rte_atomic APIs with C11 atomic APIs. In
order to make this change, the following steps are proposed:

[1] deprecate rte_atomic APIs so that future patches do not use rte_atomic
APIs (a script is added to flag the usages).
[2] refactor the code that uses rte_atomic APIs to use c11 atomic APIs.

This patchset contains:
1) the checkpatch script changes to flag rte_atomic API usage in patches.
2) changes to programmer guide describing writing efficient code for aarch64.
3) changes to various libraries to make use of c11 atomic APIs.

We are planning to replicate this idea across all the other libraries,
drivers, examples, test applications. In the next phase, we will add
changes to the mbuf, the EAL interrupts and the event timer adapter libraries.

Honnappa Nagarahalli (2):
  service: avoid race condition for MT unsafe service
  service: identify service running on another core correctly

Phil Yang (8):
  doc: add generic atomic deprecation section
  devtools: prevent use of rte atomic APIs in future patches
  vhost: optimize broadcast rarp sync with c11 atomic
  ipsec: optimize with c11 atomic for sa outbound sqn update
  service: remove rte prefix from static functions
  service: remove redundant code
  service: optimize with c11 one-way barrier
  service: relax barriers with C11 atomic operations

 devtools/checkpatches.sh                         |   9 ++
 doc/guides/prog_guide/writing_efficient_code.rst |  60 +++++++-
 lib/librte_eal/common/rte_service.c              | 175 ++++++++++++-----------
 lib/librte_ipsec/ipsec_sqn.h                     |   3 +-
 lib/librte_ipsec/sa.h                            |   2 +-
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h                         |   2 +-
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c                    |   7 +-
 lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c                    |  16 ++-
 8 files changed, 175 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)

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