eal: add function to create control threads

[dpdk.git] / lib / librte_eal / linuxapp / eal / eal_interrupts.c

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c
index b5bcfc5..9a49ae6 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c
@@ -869,10 +869,10 @@ rte_eal_intr_init(void)
        }
 
        /* create the host thread to wait/handle the interrupt */
-       ret = pthread_create(&intr_thread, NULL,
+       ret = rte_ctrl_thread_create(&intr_thread, NULL,
                        eal_intr_thread_main, NULL);
        if (ret != 0) {
-               rte_errno = ret;
+               rte_errno = -ret;
                RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
                        "Failed to create thread for interrupt handling\n");
        } else {
@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ rte_eal_intr_init(void)
                        "Failed to set thread name for interrupt handling\n");
        }
 
-       return -ret;
+       return ret;
 }
 
 static void