[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Use pthread_setname APIs

[Stephen Hemminger]

In our application we already use setname and have a policy for what the
names look like.
This won't help

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Matthew Hall <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 03:57:44PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Since it possible to have multiple DPDK applications in same environment,
> > and the thread name size is so limited, I wonder if this is a good idea.
>
> Why not try to opportunistically make the code easier to debug? DPDK is not
> always the easiest thing to debug, but at least it's way better than the
> kernel.
>
> Matthew.
>