eal: add thread lifetime API

The *rte_thread_create()* function can optionally receive an
rte_thread_attr_t object that will cause the thread to be created with
the affinity and priority described b

eal: add thread lifetime API

The *rte_thread_create()* function can optionally receive an
rte_thread_attr_t object that will cause the thread to be created with
the affinity and priority described by the attributes object. If
no rte_thread_attr_t is passed (parameter is NULL), the default
affinity and priority are used.

On Windows, the function executed by a thread when the thread starts is
represented by a function pointer of type DWORD (*func) (void*).
On other platforms, the function pointer is a void* (*func) (void*).

Performing a cast between these two types of function pointers to
uniformize the API on all platforms may result in undefined behavior.
To fix this issue, a wrapper that respects the signature required by
CreateThread() has been created on Windows.

Signed-off-by: Narcisa Vasile <navasile@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>

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eal/windows: fix CPU cores counting

On Windows, -l/--lcores EAL option was unable to process CPU sets
containing CPUs other than 0 and 1, because CPU_COUNT() macro
only checked these CPUs in the set

eal/windows: fix CPU cores counting

On Windows, -l/--lcores EAL option was unable to process CPU sets
containing CPUs other than 0 and 1, because CPU_COUNT() macro
only checked these CPUs in the set. Fix CPU_COUNT() by enumerating
all possible CPU indices.

Fixes: e8428a9d89f1 ("eal/windows: add some basic functions and macros")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Narcisa Vasile <navasile@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>

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lib: remove librte_ prefix from directory names

There is no reason for the DPDK libraries to all have 'librte_' prefix on
the directory names. This prefix makes the directory names longer and also
m

lib: remove librte_ prefix from directory names

There is no reason for the DPDK libraries to all have 'librte_' prefix on
the directory names. This prefix makes the directory names longer and also
makes it awkward to add features referring to individual libraries in the
build - should the lib names be specified with or without the prefix.
Therefore, we can just remove the library prefix and use the library's
unique name as the directory name, i.e. 'eal' rather than 'librte_eal'

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

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