On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:10:57 -0700 Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> wrote:
> As announced in 20.08 release notes, the terms for lcore role > will change in 20.11 release. > > This is a project wide patchset to terminolgy used for DPDK lcore. > The term "master" referring to lcore is replaced with "main" and > "slave" lcore is replaced with "worker" lcore. > > This is most visible in API for rte_get_master_lcore() which is > replaced with rte_get_main_lcore(). And the macros for iterating > over lcores are replaced as well. > > The first patch introduces a way to mark macro's as deprecated > as well. > > Note: this patch will fail checkpatch because current versions > of checkpatch flag use of master/slave as an error. Also, > until the whole patch series is applied, the build will generate > non-fatal warnings. > > v3 > - incorporate still more places where master/slave was still used > > v2 > - fix more places found by Anatoly and grep > - add coding style update > - add memif changes > I have some whitespace fixes for v4 pending. Will put any other comments in there.
