[PATCH v2 1/2] eal: expose lcore pthread id

[Tyler Retzlaff]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 08:36:05AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:20:40 +0200
> David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 9:54 AM Markus Theil <markus.theil at tu-ilmenau.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.pfeiffer at tu-ilmenau.de>
> > >
> > > Also expose the pthread id of each lcore, in
> > > order to allow modification of pthread attributes,
> > > for example use rte_thread_setname without executing
> > > pthread_self() on the maybe already running lcore.
> > >
> > > The rte_lcore_to_thread_id function is added to API.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.pfeiffer at tu-ilmenau.de>  
> > 
> > We are trying to abstract the use of pthread in DPDK API.
> > So I don't think this patch is going in the right direction.
> 
> Agree, exposing this will make Windows support harder
> and who knows what next OS to come will need.

+1

please don't expose platform details through eal you destroy
portability.

i'll take a closer look at this mail next week to see if i have anything
to offer.