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

[Ben Pfaff]

The <stdatomic.h> news is good, thanks!

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 12:09 PM Omar Cardona <ocardona at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hi *Ben,*
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>    - Yes, definitely.  C11/C17 stdatomic.h is high on the list.
>    - Our current critical path item for MSVC DPDK support is TLS.
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> Hi *Thomas,*
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>    - I will setup some time next week to discuss alignment and share our
>    proposed MSVC plan.
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> *From:* Ben Pfaff <blp at cs.stanford.edu>
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 4, 2021 11:15 AM
> *To:* Omar Cardona <ocardona at microsoft.com>
> *Cc:* William Tu <u9012063 at gmail.com>; thomas <thomas at monjalon.net>; <
> dev at openvswitch.org> <dev at openvswitch.org>; ovs-dev <
> ovs-dev at openvswitch.org>; Sergey Madaminov <sergey.madaminov at gmail.com>;
> Kadam, Pallavi <pallavi.kadam at intel.com>; Ilya Maximets <
> i.maximets at ovn.org>; Test <tuc at vmware.com>; Dmitry Kozlyuk <
> dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>; talshn <talshn at mellanox.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] RFC: netdev-dpdk: Add
> Windows support.
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> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 8:37 AM Omar Cardona <ocardona at microsoft.com>
> wrote:
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> > > f. With clang support on Windows, can we remove MSVC?
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> Please no.  We are actively working with the MSVC team to extend support
> for DPDKs dependencies
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> Could you get them to implement C11 atomics? The MSVC support for atomic
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> operations is poor, unless it's changed since I last looked. We could
> remove
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> quite a bit of rather awful stuff if either MSVC supported the C standard
> or if
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> OVS dropped support for MSVC.
>