From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com (mail-wm0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16F9377C for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:51:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f49.google.com with SMTP id f65so183192040wmi.0 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:51:58 -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=cfF4o+Lyh9SzPIaWtH6a42k/uHxZ66YSacVWU27VnaA=; b=Ow2JgdnlUAa/y7HS/MXHsplk4aejEo765u8DZQOOi7Sk6WtqYH4eka/M/5pZo6fxna AUwjkQq87qn9z9oy5JADYgcyMTeMXDQHoXGpXHgbo7db9r0OQ2wntYEeJ6iywop6Qzoj QitdSu0zxgZVDcp5FiG4LEsbDHVXU7R0krD+rxaroGCsjtbgI1YlZl41gomhqIc503MG 9QyX6fOWBANe+b6HQONEb0a6127zAWiiQWDWDJaLBpxvBAtffNwodH/gdaWOijev2YJA aYoucUpy8uIdCJoZaLa18o+OW0i3TmAMflu6I26jEo1JjYhmQDPrRlg4jLtW1Bnv+W1s NA7Q== 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=cfF4o+Lyh9SzPIaWtH6a42k/uHxZ66YSacVWU27VnaA=; b=aVyKzKldlcGU+PWtfeZqNCb12FJmNqNL/gUMSkoURRr0dFRG0WC7VcKtOwdxf1TpMe AkX0HsZIqF8xVSP2K81LZKnoyfulINUbFwwDE4/ZlZwIIMKvmiEy4Mhno6bi4qQWe8Nl HwHQG3iZBSF68zFOMnGCvp7mzPzGhcw57gtipjN2yMaQdCVuM9/qsllkX8vjIxdosDkd p+YycM+IWjkF9X5/kj9cf79st7LD1zEgUL5XVkYWEvAdsf/n1Flsg4kCCc2tymDu+fP3 JpfyX6hmuqR4/RIXLdMeol/1ffAkwRYadi+Ivt/lEa2pQGKHPPF3vM/28X2L/CWMyJn2 MOkg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tKRkWaX0K/F93PHas6yxgV5+yyjkH2tEfdZgKOHVlT5vOipg4U4bW7B+o5t+5RQ9HSr X-Received: by 10.28.22.6 with SMTP id 6mr13059880wmw.55.1469033518663; Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ej2sm2122177wjd.8.2016.07.20.09.51.57 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:51:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Jan Blunck , sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com Cc: dev@dpdk.org, huawei.xie@intel.com, huilongx.xu@intel.com, thiagocmartinsc@gmail.com Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:51:56 +0200 Message-ID: <9951678.mJBNUYIUdn@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1468405836.28473.15.camel@brocade.com> References: <1795705.pPV7SVCssA@xps13> <1468405836.28473.15.camel@brocade.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK on Xen maintenance 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, 20 Jul 2016 16:51:59 -0000 2016-07-13 10:30, Jan Blunck: > On Di, 2016-07-12 at 11:34 +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > We are facing some issues with Xen dom0. > > Some were fixed in RC2: > > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/043760.html > > and there still have some other issues. > > > > It seems Xen is becoming less attractive: > > - we do not have a lot of test reports or feedbacks > > - there is no maintainer for DPDK on Xen > > - we are still waiting for the Xen netfront PMD > > Although progress is slow I'm still working on upstreaming the Xen > netfront PMD. I will continue to maintain it afterwards of course. OK thanks for the update. So you are working on using DPDK in Domu. It seems that nobody is interested in using DPDK in Dom0. There is still a bug in 16.07: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044207.html > > I wonder wether it still makes sense to maintain this code or not? > > In case of positive reply, it would be nice to have the name of > > someone responsible for this code, i.e. a maintainer. Given that we have no feedback on Xen Dom0, no maintainer, some bugs, and it makes memory allocation improvements harder, it sounds reasonnable to drop this code.