From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f42.google.com (mail-wm0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC44C58CB for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:31:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f42.google.com with SMTP id f65so203071542wmi.0 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 01:31:30 -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:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JZJt+5LlArywPr9Iq0PH4WaLF8/Q+D36n/sirbXgAWM=; b=yTFxcQswAlBg+8R+ER+ptnUUkBE/gd+jGTLiB9TFidxiXPvCWrQ+qR16G9LVAMq1+v eY4qvziEGKgUl9lS9UCIrx1gf0JOv0kpKMJuAlR8goFunVtfHCHxSrdZlhWrINnvw6Lu Xm8kdlfoWWGWni+Da8p1XVmIwkscybQBmjlGkOXLGLcWsP1dn0nWHCVqhnlgvnoygfZ+ gMYNSIaNC75c3gtGK7zhOQ7DSjtaCPNhK91rPwpP9qCzJC4k7yscLQoH/vo5e+Wp8+8A X+7TPUs2kY+pWKyj4PUt9ZyBRQkwGxGyj8IV0f4shi5Z8Ecwdkf7DpSLZ7B5fyxoX/Zx 9PuA== 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:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JZJt+5LlArywPr9Iq0PH4WaLF8/Q+D36n/sirbXgAWM=; b=K0MokBk813F4tut5+fmeR7fqdvT31fA6PL8bWVJYyIMfAmbXWsYoJsNwuSnl/dFvls jikkcAetQ/i6yBYtVqgJwWkHYa4V2lqnEHKmDTXeh6UxBF7nKPm/1sEILUUtJPnleu5G eq4A6dydOf9P0JMPHsEWzjXAjwB/OPJ9TXfP7ebQaAGJjJ1OapbnDd5Tg4D+kFdaO/1y umSs4Naa32LLiWJAOAqOoxXEYvWaaJ2lB8c7uoOaPp//0AdwyfmzJIfNXUxhmwAaTz0x A8s0dDtkak7uZ5lpEMyfgMfG4H8tdrFrU1K3n0EVXPRo3xnQntPVipY75THcppHNQSl3 Lz+w== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tJm5OApfz3BL6doRjVc67+3HNHlwGHSq4lU+4vozuP+5Tm+exdkeTbxkeyF+XqPZl+/ X-Received: by 10.28.125.5 with SMTP id y5mr51466119wmc.103.1469608290602; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 01:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w129sm5876076wmd.9.2016.07.27.01.31.29 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 27 Jul 2016 01:31:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Yuanhan Liu Cc: "Loftus, Ciara" , dev@dpdk.org Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:31:28 +0200 Message-ID: <1648280.lzNIrW0CUZ@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <74F120C019F4A64C9B78E802F6AD4CC24F8ED89E@IRSMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <1468585713-28557-1-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> <74F120C019F4A64C9B78E802F6AD4CC24F8ED89E@IRSMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: deprecate vhost-cuse 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, 27 Jul 2016 08:31:31 -0000 > > Vhost-cuse was invented before vhost-user exist. The both are actually > > doing the same thing: a vhost-net implementation in user space. But they > > are not exactly the same thing. > > > > Firstly, vhost-cuse is harder for use; no one seems to care it, either. > > Furthermore, since v2.1, a large majority of development effort has gone > > to vhost-user. For example, we extended the vhost-user spec to add the > > multiple queue support. We also added the vhost-user live migration at > > v16.04 and the latest one, vhost-user reconnect that allows vhost app > > restart without restarting the guest. Both of them are very important > > features for product usage and none of them works for vhost-cuse. > > > > You now see that the difference between vhost-user and vhost-cuse is > > big (and will be bigger and bigger as time moves forward), that you > > should never use vhost-cuse, that we should drop it completely. > > > > The remove would also result to a much cleaner code base, allowing us > > to do all kinds of extending easier. > > > > So here to mark vhost-cuse as deprecated in this release and will be > > removed in the next release (v16.11). > > > > Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu > > Acked-by: Ciara Loftus Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon