[PATCH] eal: introduce atomics abstraction
Ben Magistro
koncept1 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 17:46:57 CET 2023
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:55 AM Bruce Richardson <
bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:28:40AM -0500, Ben Magistro wrote:
> > There is a thread discussing a change to the standard [1] but I have
> > not seen anything explicit yet about moving to C11. I am personally
> in
> > favor of making the jump to C11 now as part of the 23.x branch and
> > provided my thoughts in the linked thread (what other projects using
> > DPDK have as minimum compiler requirements, CentOS 7 EOL dates).
> > Is the long term plan to backport this change set to the existing LTS
> > release or is this meant to be something introduced for use in 23.x
> and
> > going forward? I think I was (probably naively) assuming this would
> be
> > a new feature in the 23.x going forward only.
> > [1] [1]http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2023-February/262188.html
> >
> We don't bump requirements for older LTS releases, so any change to minimum
> required versions would only be for the 23.x series releases
I meant the atomics change set, I should have been clearer in that
question, my apologies. If the atomic work is planned to be backported,
the question of if/when the C11 standard would be adopted seems less
relevant since it would need to be supported for DPDK versions that do not
have the C11 standard requirement too.
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