From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD5EC2B88 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:57:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 23 Feb 2017 06:57:42 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.35,198,1484035200"; d="scan'208";a="51834597" Received: from irsmsx152.ger.corp.intel.com ([163.33.192.66]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 23 Feb 2017 06:57:41 -0800 Received: from irsmsx101.ger.corp.intel.com ([169.254.1.112]) by IRSMSX152.ger.corp.intel.com ([169.254.6.191]) with mapi id 14.03.0248.002; Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:57:40 +0000 From: "Stokes, Ian" To: "Gray, Mark D" , Yuanhan Liu CC: "Wojciechowicz, RobertX" , "stable@dpdk.org" , "Mcnamara, John" , "Devlin, Michelle" , "Weglicki, MichalX" , Thomas Monjalon Thread-Topic: [dpdk-stable] vhost: many vhost user ports (backporting to v16.11) Thread-Index: AQHShmubbOeoMXX+mEKB68WBpIPpNqFoMgUAgAAHbjCAAQzMgIAL7TOggADP1QCAALmMIIAAAIzA Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:57:39 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20170209125628.GA10377@debian> <20170214024147.GQ20916@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> <738D45BC1F695740A983F43CFE1B7EA94E92FB93@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> <20170215011925.GV20916@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> <738D45BC1F695740A983F43CFE1B7EA94E93D1C5@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> <20170223035106.GS18844@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> <738D45BC1F695740A983F43CFE1B7EA94E93E804@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <738D45BC1F695740A983F43CFE1B7EA94E93E804@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> Accept-Language: en-IE, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [163.33.239.181] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] vhost: many vhost user ports (backporting to v16.11) X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:57:44 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Gray, Mark D > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 2:57 PM > To: Yuanhan Liu > Cc: Wojciechowicz, RobertX ; > stable@dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John ; Devlin, > Michelle ; Weglicki, MichalX > ; Thomas Monjalon = ; > Stokes, Ian > Subject: RE: [dpdk-stable] vhost: many vhost user ports (backporting to > v16.11) >=20 >=20 >=20 > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com] > > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:51 AM > > To: Gray, Mark D > > Cc: Wojciechowicz, RobertX ; > > stable@dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John ; Devlin, > > Michelle ; Weglicki, MichalX > > ; Thomas Monjalon > > ; Stokes, Ian > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] vhost: many vhost user ports (backporting > > to > > v16.11) > > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 03:28:19PM +0000, Gray, Mark D wrote: > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com] > > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 1:19 AM > > > > To: Gray, Mark D > > > > Cc: Wojciechowicz, RobertX ; > > > > stable@dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John ; Devlin, > > > > Michelle ; Weglicki, MichalX > > > > ; Thomas Monjalon > > > > > > > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] vhost: many vhost user ports > > > > (backporting to > > > > v16.11) > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:19:33AM +0000, Gray, Mark D wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > From: Wojciechowicz, RobertX > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 8:51 AM > > > > > > To: Yuanhan Liu ; Gray, Mark D > > > > > > > > > > > > Cc: stable@dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John ; > > > > > > Devlin, Michelle ; Weglicki, > > > > > > MichalX ; Thomas Monjalon > > > > > > > > > > > > Subject: RE: [dpdk-stable] vhost: many vhost user ports > > > > > > (backporting to > > > > > > v16.11) > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It is also worth pointing out that OVS 2.7 will use 16.11 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > One question though: will they use v16.11.1 or something like > that? > > > > > > > > > > > > @Mark do you know what exactly version OVS is going to use? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We could specify what version to compile against in the > documentation. > > > > OVS has a stable branch for 2.7 so we could update the > > > > documentation if we needed to use a specific tag/branch. In DPDK, > > > > does each stable release get tagged? > > > > > > > > Yes, but the stable tree is located at > > > > > > > > http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/ > > > > > > > > --yliu > > > > > > Thanks, Ian updated the ovs docs to reflect this. Thanks, this > > > stable branch > > really helps us. > > > > > > https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-February/328914. > > > ht > > > ml > > > > JFYI, the link address changes every time we make a release, something > > like: > > > > http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.1.tar.xz > > http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.2.tar.xz > > ... > > > > And v16.11.1 is liekly to be released next week. > > > > --yliu >=20 > I think this is probably OK as we would want to be up to date. The whole > point of LTS is that it is "stable" and we don't want to have to modify > the OVS code/docs for each release. However, we will see what the > community thinks. I'll raise this at the community call this afternoon for feedback. Ian