[ovs-dev] [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] RFC: netdev-dpdk: Add Windows support.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 8:37 AM Omar Cardona <ocardona at microsoft.com> wrote:

> > > f. With clang support on Windows, can we remove MSVC?
>
> Please no.  We are actively working with the MSVC team to extend support
> for DPDKs dependencies
>

Could you get them to implement C11 atomics? The MSVC support for atomic
operations is poor, unless it's changed since I last looked. We could remove
quite a bit of rather awful stuff if either MSVC supported the C standard
or if
OVS dropped support for MSVC.