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

[Thomas Monjalon]

2014-06-11 21:57, Richardson, Bruce:
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
> > 2014-06-11 13:45, Patrick Lu:
> > > 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?
> 
> I like lcore_index as the name for the new function. However, I'm not sure
> in that case that we want/need to rename the old one.

I think it would be not easy to distinguish id and index. So I prefer 
hwid/index. And lcore is more precise than core.

-- 
Thomas