[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 00/20] Replace terms master/slave

[Thomas Monjalon]

16/10/2020 00:57, Stephen Hemminger:
> 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.
> 
> Stephen Hemminger (20):
>   doc/coding_style: add policy about master/slave
>   eal: add macro to mark macros as deprecated
>   eal: rename lcore word choices
>   rte_power: replace rte_master_lcore with rte_main_lcore
>   drivers: replace master lcore with main lcore
>   net/memif: replace master/slave arguments with server/client
>   doc: replace master lcore with main lcore
>   app/test: replace uses of master/slave
>   app/test-pmd: replace master lcore with main lcore
>   app/test-eventdev: replace use of master lcore with main lcore
>   app: replace references to master/slave
>   examples: replace use of master with main
>   examples/multi_process: replace references to master/slave
>   examples/performance-thread: replace reference to master lcore
>   examples/qos: replace references to master
>   examples/ipsec-secgw: replace master lcore with main lcore
>   examples/pipeline: fix master/slave usage
>   examples: replace master lcore with main lcore
>   drivers/octeontx2: replace master/slave wording
>   drivers/failsafe: replace references to slave devices

A lot of patches have to be squashed to allow compilation.

Applied with adjustments, thanks