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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 03:57:44PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Since it possible to have multiple DPDK applications in same environment,
> and the thread name size is so limited, I wonder if this is a good idea.

Why not try to opportunistically make the code easier to debug? DPDK is not 
always the easiest thing to debug, but at least it's way better than the 
kernel.

Matthew.