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From: "Mattias Rönnblom" <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>, Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
	dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Tomasz Piatkowski <tomasz.piatkowski@ericsson.com>,
	nd <nd@arm.com>, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	Van Haaren Harry <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>,
	Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] eal: introduce function to get lcore thread id
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:40:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ca00e57-1e21-b7ef-6171-b432c53b1d1f@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8we-O5K02g+RF4P=Y-h7pVqVsVGTm0Mm9joyC6N4Awajw@mail.gmail.com>

On 2020-10-20 15:38, David Marchand wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:37 AM Mattias Rönnblom
> <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com> wrote:
>> Introduce function in <rte_lcore.h> to retrieve a lcore worker
>> thread's pthread id.
>>
>> This change allows applications to do things like changing the name of
>> a lcore thread, or detect if it's getting interrupted (e.g. getting
>> preempted by another thread).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
> I can see no feedback.
> I am a bit reluctant at giving access to this info which is not really
> abstracted across OS..
> Is there no other way to achieve what you wanted?
>
>
The fact that POSIX threading, or at least such thread identifiers, are 
used internally is already visible in the lcore API.


What we are using now is a little hack with a service started on each 
core, which calls pthead_self(), stores the result, and turns itself off.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-20 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-14 12:03 [dpdk-dev] Retrieving lcore worker " Mattias Rönnblom
2020-07-14 13:08 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2020-07-14 18:59   ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-14 20:51     ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-07-15 10:17       ` Mattias Rönnblom
2020-07-15 16:21         ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-07-16 10:20           ` Mattias Rönnblom
2020-08-10  9:36             ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC] eal: introduce function to get lcore " Mattias Rönnblom
2020-10-20 13:38               ` David Marchand
2020-10-20 18:40                 ` Mattias Rönnblom [this message]
2020-07-15 10:21   ` [dpdk-dev] Retrieving lcore worker " Mattias Rönnblom

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