From: "Stokes, Ian" <ian.stokes@intel.com>
To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"ktraynor@redhat.com" <ktraynor@redhat.com>,
"Xia, Chenbo" <chenbo.xia@intel.com>,
"Wang, Zhihong" <zhihong.wang@intel.com>
Cc: "Loftus, Ciara" <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce Vhost dequeue zero-copy removal
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 12:12:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c715ff4b9ac7462b9da20d658ddbc4a9@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200803145538.117096-1-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> Vhost-user dequeue zero-copy support will be removed in 20.11. The only
> known user is OVS where the feature is still experimental, and has not received
> any update for several years. This feature faces reliability issues and is often
> conflicting with new features being implemented.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> Hi, the topic was discussed during OVS-DPDK public meeting on July 22nd. Ian, if
> you had time to discuss the topic with your team and agree with the removal,
> please ack the patch.
> If, not please let me know.
>
> doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index ea4cfa7a48..a923849419 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -151,3 +151,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
> Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11.
> In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running
> scripts with Python 2.
> +
> +* vhost: Vhost-user dequeue zero-copy support will be removed in 20.11.
> +The
> + only known user is OVS where the feature is still experimental, and
> +has not
> + received any update for 2.5 years. This feature faces reliability
> +issues and
> + is often conflicting with new features being implemented.
> --
Acked-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-06 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-03 14:55 Maxime Coquelin
2020-08-04 1:36 ` Xia, Chenbo
2020-08-06 12:12 ` Stokes, Ian [this message]
2020-08-07 11:56 ` Loftus, Ciara
2020-08-07 13:00 ` Aaron Conole
2020-08-07 13:56 ` Thomas Monjalon
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