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From: Jianbo Liu <jianbo.liu@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 3/3] ring: introduce new header file to
 support C11 memory model
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 16:05:57 +0800
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Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
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The 12/03/2017 17:50, Jia He wrote:
> To support C11 memory model barrier, 2 options are suggested by Jerin:
> 1. use rte_smp_rmb
> 2. use load_acquire/store_release(refer to [1]).
> CONFIG_RTE_RING_USE_C11_MEM_MODEL is provided, and by default it is "y"
> only on arm64 so far.
>
> The reason why providing 2 options is due to the performance benchmark
> difference in different arm machines, refer to [2].
>
> We haven't tested on ppc64. If anyone verifies it, he can add
> CONFIG_RTE_RING_USE_C11_MEM_MODEL=3Dy to ppc64 config files.
>
> [1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/sys/buf_ring.h#L17=
0
> [2] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-October/080861.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Jia He <jia.he@hxt-semitech.com>
> Suggested-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>

Acked-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbo.liu@arm.com>

> ---
>  config/common_armv8a_linuxapp      |   2 +
>  lib/librte_ring/Makefile           |   3 +-
>  lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h         |  14 ++-
>  lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h | 186 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=
++++++
>  4 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 lib/librte_ring/rte_ring_c11_mem.h
>
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