From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (mail-wm0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BF75680 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:12:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f43.google.com with SMTP id f65so262192009wmi.0 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:12:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8akbB+WEINyDLxsgXo3Cg75Y3RzhssHS5LSpxRfR1FM=; b=j54qP0/5cxgz2VsVLdXle7ECg5JWm5zKaCUH6BnAfEL0N+BdHwHzXTKVcYNsYH2REm lB9+TDMh0LdkzRwpQj3JmRluaX67rrV4B/tOTE902/+M7PYVoykA8/KUFq+Qp3ejCA6G sgfxesxpVtDPmpE7ZeJgkImSpor4K+XaJwMmwAa3qnwnr25zV9HnxxctOyD+5T6dwPCj yGLFlNYrRlx6HMJaDMKFBVt6jT9uzPvJ0vQHfgYEm/Qf3/JJbHn8K0cEBkrfNYboi0vZ dWPKOpFY1lsI/llEB/lCHDMWEikaeNBUkfXZtiUG7DyQqXElmdHbzdDTRH91NCgckDyE epeQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8akbB+WEINyDLxsgXo3Cg75Y3RzhssHS5LSpxRfR1FM=; b=HCny1Z4yFVklJeFGZKbRTdoFus7+yk7tSrpHX/xEUcdW9f7L6xv7dw9ljwCpYk9eTi sZGQfJBnYrjJP+4dhtzRKczUSoPYHqq5JRhWiD5hQO31JeE+yr7JTxAlhK0B12ADT75D 95vC60Q4ehceI2Wg+Qi45GL46YpyWIRDhbewf9VIczpibpArOcayS1t5iCb8HcWk5R5o NF2HcHhhv1l38PcfbYZVQ3kKJ5YEtvsix6aFHBP+L0dK1abAg4IxnCncOoLG68lXvilE 6j0wLMgSnjgqLwwg78/ae6w4r7jAs5Jqh+sqeKuSYyw4ZxIDJrusX07jLDigZ1jGiHK9 PD9Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkoousOqgY7v568x538SY/s8GJP6hysbHrALSd+/9WufUKUmwZmNLt/0WPhScDQ81kYq+s+ X-Received: by 10.194.114.194 with SMTP id ji2mr34877956wjb.33.1469729579626; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:12:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v203sm13420507wmv.2.2016.07.28.11.12.58 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:12:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Christian Ehrhardt Cc: Jan Viktorin , Yuanhan Liu , dev@dpdk.org Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:12:57 +0200 Message-ID: <25785467.YWEyGPLDsN@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1468585713-28557-1-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> <20160727205925.6a86fbdf@pcviktorin.fit.vutbr.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 18:13:00 -0000 > > > 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 > Acked-by: Christian Ehrhardt Applied, thanks