From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-vk0-f53.google.com (mail-vk0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670D058D8 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:58:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-vk0-f53.google.com with SMTP id x130so12466256vkc.0 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:58:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bigswitch-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=WpvLH+EzVvviiP54vAfhLGyWI/+mfGJMLYWG6YRyHek=; b=vTCgURFyYdjO83FgkCFh3WQxoabZWID64yVBbQUorOOh9OqegYSNMJLd1DYT1c1zLL zCZ0MnSqP1fG2JS/qBYt9Al8yyF7IXrTseZhfcri69+fz5dTw7xfndj1rQoIAQGakN9H 1PGhFvK54A+SC4acz77u1we6Ur8luvbPKWgQWmPxP8MUnmIuQcOs/S2jtzQztHMAlWHa 3hD2bBnU8Vk7sEEUUCSu9aTFnt8mSrB0dG5nqg7TzP6ftfx+BfnOLHbXLR/FJ5Lls0Xl QmfiroLusompHViXjaYU6yooo11tQc55XnWGTaoNZpYM+nzYywF95OUbFIF39krH/UHb /PfA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=WpvLH+EzVvviiP54vAfhLGyWI/+mfGJMLYWG6YRyHek=; b=b0Gsn/PR0eClGMrDmPtKlpmJa3fZrVyIxJG6uszok/XtwajOzhDuZbhelNERWJqYjy HQG+qo7luaacs0o4p0hp0U8yBup24EnfTsiTsMS7uqUgNTaW64n5sjilx7Ihx6XpZgsH G3Xw76r8E9Rf7Sj2UBzSmYim2yFlUJ6QM93VOWkmhPlq8+BdxOvzarMeimJVENPdmqZc s5apKiTsqfVjL5rcGPDG/2bnPjR/mIbs0IwyO8gw+tj6oLGEXcMRSxWaBSJCiLkALL7o xzELeZusV1GsEdiOhUgLdstS0rPTuAHA2tlJ08mfmK/M7T943/0mbImSD86D0mQ7ZNsk 0kEw== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkooutEFcCESSDUhmAiUGEv0wTQ4RpP1UjnwFTa6RwS4V/tHwwhZtV+RpjmcYeiVAnrOOcRVW8vaNzsV9kZvT12 X-Received: by 10.31.188.203 with SMTP id m194mr13321235vkf.120.1469635064663; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:57:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.31.190.70 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:57:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1648280.lzNIrW0CUZ@xps13> References: <1468585713-28557-1-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> <74F120C019F4A64C9B78E802F6AD4CC24F8ED89E@IRSMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com> <1648280.lzNIrW0CUZ@xps13> From: Rich Lane Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:57:44 -0700 Message-ID: To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: Yuanhan Liu , "Loftus, Ciara" , dev@dpdk.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 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 15:58:02 -0000 On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > 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 > Acked-by: Rich Lane