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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] dropping librte_ivshmem
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On 6/15/2016 7:34 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-06-15 19:16, Ferruh Yigit:
>> On 6/9/2016 10:26 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> So this is my proposal:
>>> Someone start working on the above cleanup now, otherwise the whole
>>> rte_ivshmem feature will be deprecated in 16.07 and removed in 16.11.
>>
>> I would like to note that at least SPP (soft patch panel) is using
>> rte_ivshmem feature.
> 
> Why?
> Can SPP work without ivshmem?
> 

Can do, it supports both ivshmem and vhost.
But ivshmem gives clearly more performance for VM to VM communication.