[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 00/17] Replace terms master/slave

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 15-Sep-20 4:10 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> As announced in 20.08 release notes, the terms for lcore role
> will change in 20.11 release.
> 
> This is a project wide patchset to terminolgy used for DPDK lcore.
> The term "master" referring to lcore is replaced with "main" and
> "slave" lcore is replaced with "worker" lcore.
> 
> This is most visible in API for rte_get_master_lcore() which is
> replaced with rte_get_main_lcore(). And the macros for iterating
> over lcores are replaced as well.
> 
> The first patch introduces a way to mark macro's as deprecated
> as well.
> 
> Note: this patch will fail checkpatch because current versions
> of checkpatch flag use of master/slave as an error. Also,
> until the whole patch series is applied, the build will generate
> non-fatal warnings.
> 

Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>

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Thanks,
Anatoly