api: add bapi thread handle to api main structure.

Adding the thread handle to the api main structure allows the client process of
the bin api to manage the thread, like setting the thread name for example.

Type: feature
Change-Id: I38b58ddc83d5958c4bda76eadd371eee1545724b
Signed-off-by: IJsbrand Wijnands <ice@cisco.com>

diff --git a/src/vlibapi/api_common.h b/src/vlibapi/api_common.h
index 98fcbde..bb19970 100644 (file)
--- a/src/vlibapi/api_common.h
+++ b/src/vlibapi/api_common.h
@@ -340,6 +340,9 @@ typedef struct
   /** List of API client reaper functions */
   _vl_msg_api_function_list_elt_t *reaper_function_registrations;
 
+  /** Bin API thread handle */
+  pthread_t rx_thread_handle;
+
   /** event log */
   elog_main_t *elog_main;
   int elog_trace_api_messages;

diff --git a/src/vlibmemory/memory_client.c b/src/vlibmemory/memory_client.c
index f032ae7..25c01f1 100644 (file)
--- a/src/vlibmemory/memory_client.c
+++ b/src/vlibmemory/memory_client.c
@@ -394,6 +394,7 @@ connect_to_vlib_internal (const char *svm_name,
 {
   int rv = 0;
   memory_client_main_t *mm = &memory_client_main;
+  api_main_t *am = &api_main;
 
   if (do_map && (rv = vl_client_api_map (svm_name)))
     {
@@ -415,7 +416,14 @@ connect_to_vlib_internal (const char *svm_name,
       rv = pthread_create (&mm->rx_thread_handle,
                           NULL /*attr */ , rx_thread_fn, 0);
       if (rv)
-       clib_warning ("pthread_create returned %d", rv);
+       {
+         clib_warning ("pthread_create returned %d", rv);
+         am->rx_thread_handle = 0;
+       }
+      else
+       {
+         am->rx_thread_handle = mm->rx_thread_handle;
+       }
     }
 
   mm->connected_to_vlib = 1;