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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Cc: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>,
	Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] doc: deprecate vhost-cuse
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:12:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25785467.YWEyGPLDsN@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAATJJ0KgJ6tNBQA=Ri4kAVtfxG9RGcSCkccsfFqkqjAPfsk_=w@mail.gmail.com>

> > > 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 <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> > > Acked-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
> > > Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> > > Acked-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane@bigswitch.com>
> > Acked-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
> Acked-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>

Applied, thanks

      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-28 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-15 12:28 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Yuanhan Liu
2016-07-21 11:07 ` Loftus, Ciara
2016-07-27  8:31   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-07-27 15:57     ` Rich Lane
2016-07-27 18:59 ` [dpdk-dev] " Jan Viktorin
2016-07-28  9:10   ` Christian Ehrhardt
2016-07-28 18:12     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]

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