From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wes1-so1.wedos.net (wes1-so1.wedos.net [46.28.106.15]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798E12BD3 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:59:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pcviktorin.fit.vutbr.cz (pcviktorin.fit.vutbr.cz [147.229.13.147]) by wes1-so1.wedos.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3s046w0ydWzB4r; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:59:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:59:25 +0200 From: "Jan Viktorin" To: Yuanhan Liu Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Thomas Monjalon Message-ID: <20160727205925.6a86fbdf@pcviktorin.fit.vutbr.cz> In-Reply-To: <1468585713-28557-1-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> References: <1468585713-28557-1-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Organization: RehiveTech MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] 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 18:59:52 -0000 On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 20:28:33 +0800 Yuanhan Liu 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 Acked-by: Jan Viktorin