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From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eal/thread: fix return
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:00:55AM +0100, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 08-Jun-18 1:37 PM, Dariusz Stojaczyk wrote:
> > The doc says this function returns negative errno
> > on error, but it currently returns either -1 or
> > positive errno.
> > 
> > It was incorrectly assumed that pthread_setname_np()
> > returns negative error numbers. It always returns
> > positive ones, so this patch negates its return value
> > before returning.
> > 
> > While here, also ignore rte_thread_setname() failure
> > in rte_ctrl_thread_create() and print a debug message
> > instead.
> > 
> > Fixes: 3901ed99c2f8 ("eal: fix thread naming on FreeBSD")
> > Cc: thomas.monjalon@6wind.com
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dariusz Stojaczyk <dariuszx.stojaczyk@intel.com>
> > ---
> 
> For patch contents,
> 
> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> 
> However, maybe this should be split in two patches.

Agree it should be split.

Reviewed-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>

Out of curiosity, do you have a use-case where rte_thread_setname()
fails? The only reason I see is a too long name. Why this error
should be ignored?