BUILD.Windows: Add a TODO section.

And mention the lack of atomics support on Windows as the
first item.

Suggested-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty@nicira.com>
Acked-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>

diff --git a/BUILD.Windows b/BUILD.Windows
index ca0d252..41e6eab 100644 (file)
--- a/BUILD.Windows
+++ b/BUILD.Windows
@@ -85,3 +85,11 @@ For example,
   --with-openssl="C:/OpenSSL-Win32"
 
 * Run make for the ported executables.
   --with-openssl="C:/OpenSSL-Win32"
 
 * Run make for the ported executables.

+
+TODO:
+----
+
+* OVS currently has no native support for atomics on Windows.  Pthreads
+are used as a fallback, but some features, such as OVS-RCU are really
+slow without native atomics support. Atomics support for Windows has to
+be brought in.