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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/14] eal: introduce atomic exchange
	operation
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 00:50:55 +0100
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21/01/2018 20:25, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 1/21/2018 6:59 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> > 
> > To handle atomic update of link status (64 bit), every driver
> > was doing its own version using cmpset.
> > Atomic exchange is a useful primitive in its own right;
> > therefore make it a EAL routine.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> > Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.

I need to drop this series when pulling in master,
because PPC is not supported.

Chao, please could you help on this feature?
Thanks