From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A922D1B53 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:19:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 20 Nov 2017 11:19:08 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.44,429,1505804400"; d="scan'208";a="3988587" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.241.225.6]) ([10.241.225.6]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 20 Nov 2017 11:19:08 -0800 To: "Zhao, Bing" , users@dpdk.org Cc: "bing.zhao@hxt-semitech.com" References: <78ddb2e1-e2ae-e3b2-61be-4023945cb023@163.com> From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: <2dba7ef1-d0a7-4467-3b68-16102c4d48e5@intel.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:19:07 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <78ddb2e1-e2ae-e3b2-61be-4023945cb023@163.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] KNI vhost support has been removed from 17.05 X-BeenThere: users@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK usage discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:19:10 -0000 On 11/20/2017 1:34 AM, Zhao, Bing wrote: > Hello Yigit, > I searched from the Internet about the KNI vhost support. And from > your slides "Interworking with the Linux Kernel" in Dublin, 2016, it is > said that the support was planned to be removed because no user use it. > And from the release notes of 17.05, it is mentioned, as title, the > support is removed. I searched the archive mails and only limited > information could be found. So it there any technical discussion about > this? And will this be added back in the future or removed forever? Hi Bing, There was no discussion, but also there was no comment to the patch that removes the support, nobody objected it. The KNI vhost is from times there was no vhost support exists, now it is possible to use vhost. And there is no plan to put it back. Are you an user of that feature? Thanks, ferruh > > Many thanks in advance~ > > BR. Bing >