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

[Stephen Hemminger]

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.