On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:20:26 -0700 Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile <navas...@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
> @@ -59,7 +92,7 @@ void rte_thread_get_affinity(rte_cpuset_t *cpusetp); > * > * @return > * On success, zero. > - * On failure, a negative number. > + * On failure, return a positive errno-style error number. > */ The common pattern in DPDK is to return a negative value for errors. There is a tradeoff here, should the wrapper functions just mimic what Posix API's do or not. I prefer what this patch does; so users can just assume the rte_thread functions all work exactly like the pthread versions.