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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add an API to query enabled core index
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 23:51:11 +0200
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Hi,

2014-06-11 13:45, Patrick Lu:
> EAL -c option allows the user to enable any lcore in the system.
> Oftentimes, the user app wants to know 1st enabled core, 2nd
> enabled core, etc, rather than phyical core ID (rte_lcore_id().)
> 
> The new API rte_lcore_id2() will return an index from enabled lcores
> starting from zero.

I think core_id2 is not a representative name.
What do you think of renaming core_id as lcore_hwid and core_id2 as lcore_index?

-- 
Thomas