From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f50.google.com (mail-wm0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7AE377C for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:35:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f50.google.com with SMTP id o80so77246293wme.1 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:35:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=nyCHV7TsSK28xN0hBOuQrjc+nuj9L0NjBlvtttaEwB8=; b=NDYinyPFBWjHtyiq5qDE0cQMtWgF57MqcyNVCm0uj3zoYM2y2R14j4ImDH2/4WqWS1 XpSRcXjIxnHtpv4uBYJcSRCuc8ummn6++dKAPZIsv65MYqIZitfWjQLp1QA2eimxLcSM Fk7AyzTDxUDJXv//QYzcaOX1fsgiiJkZZ4wDT/c7moiHvBIEO5z8dfgC3c0iNPWYuYNm q0+8eFakMGyg+wyYvS3CwZzuPMaDxw9dR+1kJy3s9mcweha45HaX0R2d+LV3teRE41a9 g55+FxoJG2Cljrrqw0xhLmTIvVMAF0JiXGj5Ql7lOFlrBbBHurf4O6t3ToqY+mKYigVD uieA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=nyCHV7TsSK28xN0hBOuQrjc+nuj9L0NjBlvtttaEwB8=; b=j73eUNwQW/F63djfQC01gkPuZsjuI8mAgHaVMH1OA/bHsbas0JXwIQK0jC/uAs0gME 80AcCX/7KNnad9zqA4koml6nbKrw9X7wMkwuialbaI5eiosfq1h9v7f/hfyiyvthFOge AkJWKOmaMdcNCepklnQULDSzBqO8XPFlWnj742phDv4NkOOW3Xdk6zn9vlg+3/iHT+AH kDCH96oDwDS32Eb9mWXR0r+JiJDaGKofX2kThwrSQfGssqE+23B5rWbKtfUK2XUeKbKG mB7zv563COn49wunNs70pt3uBNKcNbJ5c/lJA5bjlTheRhZ76fLbw6L3fO/Y5LJwy+QQ V0RA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tJ28UdY7pyIccuXwN0Z7rdt058sYCj782arCdFV5aBa015dM4dqaPRKDZ+ZDvC2osT7 X-Received: by 10.195.18.3 with SMTP id gi3mr2470474wjd.173.1469032553108; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:35:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from XPS13.localdomain (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id lh10sm2053790wjc.12.2016.07.20.09.35.51 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:35:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: anatoly.burakov@intel.com Cc: dev@dpdk.org Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:35:46 +0200 Message-Id: <1469032546-6256-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ivshmem support removal X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:35:53 -0000 There was a prior call with an explanation of what needs to be done: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/040844.html - Qemu patch upstreamed - IVSHMEM PCI device managed by a PCI driver - No DPDK objects (ring/mempool) allocated by EAL As nobody seems interested, it is time to remove this code which makes EAL improvements harder. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 9cadf6a..1ef8460 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ Deprecation Notices will be removed in 16.11. It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions. +* The ``rte_ivshmem`` feature (including library and EAL code) will be removed + in 16.11 because it has some design issues which are not planned to be fixed. + * The ethtool support will be removed from KNI in 16.11. It is implemented only for igb and ixgbe. It is really hard to maintain because it requires some out-of-tree kernel -- 2.7.0