if (lcore_id >= RTE_MAX_LCORE)
return -1;
if (lcore_id < 0)
- lcore_id = rte_lcore_id();
+ lcore_id = (int)rte_lcore_id();
return lcore_config[lcore_id].core_index;
}
*/
unsigned rte_socket_id(void);
+/**
+ * Return number of physical sockets detected on the system.
+ *
+ * Note that number of nodes may not be correspondent to their physical id's:
+ * for example, a system may report two socket id's, but the actual socket id's
+ * may be 0 and 8.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * the number of physical sockets as recognized by EAL
+ */
+unsigned int __rte_experimental
+rte_socket_count(void);
+
+/**
+ * Return socket id with a particular index.
+ *
+ * This will return socket id at a particular position in list of all detected
+ * physical socket id's. For example, on a machine with sockets [0, 8], passing
+ * 1 as a parameter will return 8.
+ *
+ * @param idx
+ * index of physical socket id to return
+ *
+ * @return
+ * - physical socket id as recognized by EAL
+ * - -1 on error, with errno set to EINVAL
+ */
+int __rte_experimental
+rte_socket_id_by_idx(unsigned int idx);
+
/**
* Get the ID of the physical socket of the specified lcore
*
*/
int rte_thread_setname(pthread_t id, const char *name);
+/**
+ * Create a control thread.
+ *
+ * Wrapper to pthread_create(), pthread_setname_np() and
+ * pthread_setaffinity_np(). The dataplane and service lcores are
+ * excluded from the affinity of the new thread.
+ *
+ * @param thread
+ * Filled with the thread id of the new created thread.
+ * @param name
+ * The name of the control thread (max 16 characters including '\0').
+ * @param attr
+ * Attributes for the new thread.
+ * @param start_routine
+ * Function to be executed by the new thread.
+ * @param arg
+ * Argument passed to start_routine.
+ * @return
+ * On success, returns 0; on error, it returns a negative value
+ * corresponding to the error number.
+ */
+__rte_experimental int
+rte_ctrl_thread_create(pthread_t *thread, const char *name,
+ const pthread_attr_t *attr,
+ void *(*start_routine)(void *), void *arg);
+
/**
* Test if the core supplied has a specific role
*
* @param role
* The role to be checked against.
* @return
- * On success, return 0; otherwise return a negative value.
+ * Boolean value: positive if test is true; otherwise returns 0.
*/
int
rte_lcore_has_role(unsigned int lcore_id, enum rte_lcore_role_t role);