From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00334A0540; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:33:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D03791D6A8; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:33:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga12.intel.com (mga12.intel.com [192.55.52.136]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB2A1D6A2 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:33:30 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: ahelB0x/oSWHxu2bbqMUApVkQhRp3nS+IZ9wSyeuX222EoqsCgERv+lt2q1MVCd2NySol7thRk VPdiaIt8+xYw== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9680"; a="128177324" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.75,347,1589266800"; d="scan'208";a="128177324" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by fmsmga106.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 13 Jul 2020 05:33:29 -0700 IronPort-SDR: IGSxvRY4HgnQSRVjJjgCRWA0m2XzTbKmWCVEi1Ba6WfDUe/ttMr9F1LAN9867XfDmuVLsY3oPz M+agrSGwkzTg== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.75,347,1589266800"; d="scan'208";a="459275997" Received: from aburakov-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.213.225.87]) ([10.213.225.87]) by orsmga005.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 13 Jul 2020 05:33:28 -0700 To: Stephen Hemminger , dev@dpdk.org References: <20200604210200.25405-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> <20200701202359.17006-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> From: "Burakov, Anatoly" Message-ID: <62a15456-e9e1-3aeb-1a95-7e1d5e1f83d9@intel.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:33:28 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200701202359.17006-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/27] Replace references to master and slave X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 01-Jul-20 9:23 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > This set of patches changes the API and conventions around referring > to DPDK lcores. The first patch changes rte_get_master_lcore_id > and related calls. The rest fix the DPDK to use the new naming. > > Buried in the documentation set are a couple of patches where > we were using incorrect naming around primary/secondary process. > > This will could/should be flagged as an API policy violation > since new API is jumping the queue of EXPERIMENTAL. But we can > vote on the exception. > > The one area left to be fixed is the bonding device. > I am not too sure about the "initial" core term, it doesn't strike me as immediately obvious as to what "initial" core does. Perhaps "main" lcore would be more descriptive? -- Thanks, Anatoly