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

[Lu, Patrick]

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 2:51 PM
To: Lu, Patrick
Cc: dev at dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Add an API to query enabled core index

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?

--
Thomas

I think this is a good idea. Except core_id is used in 13 other places. Should I resubmit the patch with core_id renamed it lcore_hwid?

Patrick