[PATCH v6 0/3] eal: deprecate last use of pthread_t in public API

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 10:26 PM Tyler Retzlaff
<roretzla at linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Announce deprecation of rte_ctrl_thread_create API which is the final
> remaining stable API exposing pthread_t.
>
> Provide an equivalent replacement API rte_thread_create_control that
> uses the new rte_thread_t type.
>
> Provide a unit test for the new rte_thread_create_control API
> (test code provided by David Marchand.)
>
> Add missing doxygen index for thread / rte_thread.h.
>
> Notice!
>
> To limit compatibility regression risk and ease removal of the
> existing rte_ctrl_thread_create in the future duplicate most of the
> existing implementation rather than try to have it accommodate both
> public API contracts.
>
> The duplication, the union introduced to support it along with remaining
> internal pthread_xxx calls will be removed when rte_ctrl_thread_create is
> finally removed.
>
> The old unit test for rte_ctrl_thread_create is kept in place to guarantee
> correct behavior while deprecated and will be removed when
> rte_ctrl_thread_create is finally removed.
>
> Series-acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com>
>
> v6:
>   * fix missing comma in doxygen index
>   * combine deprecation notice for rte_ctrl_thread_create into notice
>     of removal of rte_thread_setname.
>   * remove test_lcore.c test and add test provided by David Marchand
>     to test_threads.c.
>   * rename the function to start with rte_thread to be consistent
>     with the rest of functions in the rte_thread.h APIs.

Thank you Tyler.

The series lgtm.
The deprecation notice is missing one ack, I'll still wait a bit.
If we don't get it soon, I'll apply the first two patches for rc1.


-- 
David Marchand