[PATCH] set namespace prefix to threads

[David Marchand]

On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 1:24 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
>
> When looking at threads in a system, it can be confusing
> to find some unknown threads without a clue it is started by DPDK.
>
> Let's start all thread names with "dpdk-"
> and the driver name if it comes from a driver.
>
> One more constraint: the thread names are generally limited
> to 16 characters, including NUL character.

Yes, and no way to discover this limit.


>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> ---
> Please review carefully, I may have missed things.
>
> Note: we should use rte_ctrl_thread_create() as much as possible.
>

As for this comment, we should advertise rte_thread_create_control()
instead, as it is thread library agnostic.
Which leads me to suggest looking at rte_thread_create_control() calls too.


> diff --git a/lib/eal/freebsd/eal.c b/lib/eal/freebsd/eal.c
> index 7008303e11..e201acd1c2 100644
> --- a/lib/eal/freebsd/eal.c
> +++ b/lib/eal/freebsd/eal.c
> @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
>
>                 /* Set thread_name for aid in debugging. */
>                 snprintf(thread_name, sizeof(thread_name),
> -                               "rte-worker-%d", i);
> +                               "dpdk-worker-%d", i);
>                 rte_thread_set_name(lcore_config[i].thread_id, thread_name);
>
>                 ret = rte_thread_set_affinity_by_id(lcore_config[i].thread_id,

We changed this not so long ago with 8ae946970ed3 ("eal: fix thread
name for high order lcores") which offered up to 4 digits for lcores.
With your proposal, we are back to only 3 digits, which is probably
enough, but I preferred to raise it.



-- 
David Marchand