From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-f175.google.com (mail-qk0-f175.google.com [209.85.220.175]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B15E376D for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:11:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-qk0-f175.google.com with SMTP id p74so57103156qka.0 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 02:11:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=canonical-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=Bo+ywC72ivK3tYTPpXSOfpJuQJ8wtcXJ8dWlPk66nqA=; b=Vz/PO8s5esqwxqhBRXCRAbWhFblvfPn7T6p7PUqGxDwO3J+iol3myff/J4Je/wGHQ7 KASsAHG454CLqKjo0P5Tfks3Epnp6sUedtnqaYm16qCk7AcF5AhmuthagcBWku4So8T0 RAzzmjAe/jfcdAhz2Zj/kd+uZ69jLYvxNB6qEG0KudlQWR1NUwV2KKAllXEplhTXOQZc 7xXael4hfiukAqFY8oLGCCnc45LYL1LINUJIjVDRQl3p87NEahVE0F6SBPGfUAGP69FE 9ThT+i/FxjKQmXcu1F7FHr+o155DQaT31O3b/FIXWY9MC2YiWB94zbRS7rR/uC18N0l/ DiDA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=Bo+ywC72ivK3tYTPpXSOfpJuQJ8wtcXJ8dWlPk66nqA=; b=LbWKDythtJpXYv+v/FyaIxbu+WbGZqKumzCqcvoMsTqhByNy6TSPnBzpjxO5GcHAag 68iHwszCQ0kH2J3Gd4O7f3iMoYWQ0pEjkgA5RmzyHIyJNiAaxxinijwLv1MOahB3hhUc 999rXvQv6o3wvS5DTNkE99GHfxM2Yf82EKk55s6RN+PhEKQOw/VkafEuwYol28bcwXwn hKYeKn9vaHMggg4mlUPadsABibNUYNIHuUNaaiJejfWHIF+r4g2f1dB5DbK/0gQvxRYc XV4D3b6e8t+vwt0IwlRmYbuKbgVqgT6yBEarmV73em3oS0vIN4kHe1MqJPnewiahn9a6 U7lw== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkoousVosjohMMCVBXXsvIH9IgTCWR749FrBAETXWew3ZUC9ZmpzRonbu+QkefTN3gfvbx31OOEGSEtUueqeacK X-Received: by 10.55.75.207 with SMTP id y198mr39867979qka.57.1469697070069; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 02:11:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.55.15.193 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 02:10:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160727205925.6a86fbdf@pcviktorin.fit.vutbr.cz> References: <1468585713-28557-1-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> <20160727205925.6a86fbdf@pcviktorin.fit.vutbr.cz> From: Christian Ehrhardt Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:10:50 +0200 Message-ID: To: Jan Viktorin Cc: Yuanhan Liu , dev , Thomas Monjalon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 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 09:11:10 -0000 Hi Thomas, just my two cents as Ubuntu DPDK maintainer (and part of the Debian Team that does the same). We never used vhost-cuse in any of our exampled, documentations or tests (It seems we started "late enough"). So again I think it is a good change to drop rather unmaintained parts to make the rest more stable: Acked-by: Christian Ehrhardt Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Jan Viktorin wrote: > 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 >