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

[Joyce Kong <joyce.kong@arm.com>]

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@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Joyce Kong <joyce.kong@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 9584d6bfd7..a4f350fa09 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -19,16 +19,18 @@ Deprecation Notices
 
 * rte_atomicNN_xxx: These APIs do not take memory order parameter. This does
   not allow for writing optimized code for all the CPU architectures supported
-  in DPDK. DPDK will adopt C11 atomic operations semantics and provide wrappers
-  using C11 atomic built-ins. These wrappers must be used for patches that
-  need to be merged in 20.08 onwards. This change will not introduce any
-  performance degradation.
+  in DPDK. DPDK has adopted the atomic operations from
+  https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html. These
+  operations must be used for patches that need to be merged in 20.08 onwards.
+  This change will not introduce any performance degradation.
 
 * rte_smp_*mb: These APIs provide full barrier functionality. However, many
-  use cases do not require full barriers. To support such use cases, DPDK will
-  adopt C11 barrier semantics and provide wrappers using C11 atomic built-ins.
-  These wrappers must be used for patches that need to be merged in 20.08
-  onwards. This change will not introduce any performance degradation.
+  use cases do not require full barriers. To support such use cases, DPDK has
+  adopted atomic operations from
+  https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html. These
+  operations and a new wrapper ``rte_atomic_thread_fence`` instead of
+  ``__atomic_thread_fence`` must be used for patches that need to be merged in
+  20.08 onwards. This change will not introduce any performance degradation.
 
 * lib: will fix extending some enum/define breaking the ABI. There are multiple
   samples in DPDK that enum/define terminated with a ``.*MAX.*`` value which is
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