From: Joyce Kong Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:49:43 +0000 (-0500) Subject: doc: update atomic operation deprecation X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3ec965b6de12bf4454d12823a28b5bbe37bd1ce5;p=dpdk.git doc: update atomic operation deprecation 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 Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 61fadef915..92db9e14bb 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