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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>
Cc: "ferruh.yigit@intel.com" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	"david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Phil Yang <Phil.Yang@arm.com>,
	"techboard@dpdk.org" <techboard@dpdk.org>, nd <nd@arm.com>,
	Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Using C11 atomic semantic
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:39:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3186466.fdGK1iNSLM@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB6PR0802MB2216222171335822680325AD987B0@DB6PR0802MB2216.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>

20/07/2020 17:44, Honnappa Nagarahalli:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > 
> > In the techboard of April 22, it has been decided to block patches using
> > rte_atomicNN_xx and rte_smp_*mb APIs, starting DPDK 20.08.
> > Meeting minutes:
> > 	http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-April/165143.html
> > Deprecation notice:
> > 	http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.html
> > 
> > Some doc has been submitted to help understanding how to manage atomics:
> > 	http://doc	.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/writing_efficient_code.html#locks-and-
> > atomic-operations
> > 
> > Unfortunately the tool to check new code was merged last week:
> > 	http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=f1602b4a86
> > 
> > As a consequence, I propose to apply the "reject rule" starting DPDK 20.11.
> 
> As far as I know no patch with rte_atomic has gone in 20.08 so far. Are there any patches in RC2/RC3 that need rte_atomic APIs?

Yes we have the case of an additional call added in 20.08-rc2
in mlx5 (not yet converted to C11 atomics).

> > Can we make this rule better advertised with an announce message?
> 
> Do you mean an email on dpdk-announce mailing list?

Yes

> > Are the current technical explanations enough?
> 
> The documentation patch you referenced above covers most common cases people will encounter. Even the rte_ring/rte_stack algorithms work on the same principles.
> 
> > If not, it would be wonderful to have a blog post explaining the details, as
> > part of an announce.
> 
> This is in the works. The plan is to send it to you soon and get it out along with the release.

Great



  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-20 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-20 15:34 Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-20 15:44 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-20 16:39   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-07-20 19:36     ` Honnappa Nagarahalli

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