On 01-Jul-20 9:23 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
New terms are initial and worker lcores.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
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+* **Renamed master lcore to initial lcore.**
+
+ The name given to the first thread in DPDK is changed from master lcore to
initial lcore.
Removed Items
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@@ -122,7 +125,6 @@ Removed Items
* Removed ``RTE_KDRV_NONE`` based PCI device driver probing.
-
Accidental whitespace change?
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@@ -310,8 +310,8 @@ If initialization is successful, memory for hardware device
statistics is allocated.
Finally ``main()`` function starts all packet handling lcores and starts
-printing stats in a loop on the master lcore. The application can be
-interrupted and closed using ``Ctrl-C``. The master lcore waits for
+printing stats in a loop on the initial lcore. The application can be
+interrupted and closed using ``Ctrl-C``. The initial lcore waits for
all slave processes to finish, deallocates resources and exits.
Missed updating a line right below the changes. Also, i think worker
cores were meant, not secondary processes.
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/* reset the timer */
diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/multi_process.rst
b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/multi_process.rst
index f2a79a639763..51b8db5cf75a 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/multi_process.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/multi_process.rst
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ The process should start successfully and display a command
prompt as follows:
EAL: check igb_uio module
EAL: check module finished
- EAL: Master core 0 is ready (tid=54e41820)
+ EAL: Initial core 0 is ready (tid=54e41820)
I believe you've missed updating a similar place (EAL logs) in quick
start guide.
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Thanks,
Anatoly
