[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-atomic: Reintroduce atomic_uint64_t and atomic_int64_t.

Simon Horman simon.horman at netronome.com
Wed Oct 4 08:15:30 UTC 2017


On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:18:52AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> This is essentially a revert of commit e09d61c41b4f ("ovs-atomic: Remove
> atomic_uint64_t and atomic_int64_t.")  My fear that some 32-bit platforms
> did not support 64-bit integers seems overblown, because OVS 2.6.x uses
> the 64-bit atomic_ullong and it is in Debian, which has tons of
> architectures.
> 
> CC: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>

Hi Ben,

I do not have any recollection of the discussion around e09d61c41b4f,
but this seems reasonable to me.

Acked-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman at netronome.com>


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