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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] support multi-phtread per lcore
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:15:00 -0800
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:20:07 +0000
"Walukiewicz, Miroslaw" <Miroslaw.Walukiewicz-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

>  Could we extend values returned by rte_lcore_id() to set them per thread (really the DPDK lcore is a pthread but started on specific core) instead of creating linear thread id.

The linear thread id is very useful for having per-core statistics tables.
This is done in lots of places to avoid cache thrashing.