[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Add an API to query enabled core index

[Thomas Monjalon]

Hi,

2014-06-11 13:45, Patrick Lu:
> EAL -c option allows the user to enable any lcore in the system.
> Oftentimes, the user app wants to know 1st enabled core, 2nd
> enabled core, etc, rather than phyical core ID (rte_lcore_id().)
> 
> The new API rte_lcore_id2() will return an index from enabled lcores
> starting from zero.

I think core_id2 is not a representative name.
What do you think of renaming core_id as lcore_hwid and core_id2 as lcore_index?

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Thomas