From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from m12-16.163.com (m12-16.163.com [220.181.12.16]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DDE123A for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 03:04:14 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=163.com; s=s110527; h=From:Subject:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version; bh=cv4CB qlR6FIsV82A9GO5w4TzuFTn5Qaf5ghqFMQ316I=; b=CwEXlb1mx75NFiTR4ykEu hbTkSrnqY+Kze2me+PpVp5HT3R9PsoeEkNGaHVzORtOvw9/BFiD1v9xi0hTrVFSD K8U9XLHfqMgiRhgxp2DcxeGprz03GUZ6RBpF5PKnvCYLLD6B29WJcqFMgww1aCa8 FEd2NjYFG0ysX+xEjFisbg= Received: from [10.65.21.145] (unknown [180.173.249.63]) by smtp2 (Coremail) with SMTP id DNGowADX8LaFiRNaR56DAA--.22S2; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:04:02 +0800 (CST) From: "Zhao, Bing" To: Ferruh Yigit Cc: "bing.zhao@hxt-semitech.com" , users@dpdk.org References: <78ddb2e1-e2ae-e3b2-61be-4023945cb023@163.com> <2dba7ef1-d0a7-4467-3b68-16102c4d48e5@intel.com> Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:03:48 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2dba7ef1-d0a7-4467-3b68-16102c4d48e5@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CM-TRANSID: DNGowADX8LaFiRNaR56DAA--.22S2 X-Coremail-Antispam: 1Uf129KBjvJXoW7Ar45ZFW3tFW7XryfJFy8uFg_yoW8GrWfpa n5XF1kCFnxJr4xArn7Zr1kXr48C39a9FW5GwnxWw18AasIg3ZFgr93KF4j9a4DGr9Ygay2 yr1UZ34Iyws0yaDanT9S1TB71UUUUUUqnTZGkaVYY2UrUUUUjbIjqfuFe4nvWSU5nxnvy2 9KBjDUYxBIdaVFxhVjvjDU0xZFpf9x07jZnYrUUUUU= X-Originating-IP: [180.173.249.63] X-CM-SenderInfo: xlor4vhwkxzzi6rwjhhfrp/1tbiQxKXt1c6-XoTtgAAs+ 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: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 02:04:15 -0000 Hello Ferruh, On 2017/11/21 3:19, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > 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 > > Many thanks for your information. I am not a user of that feature but some learner. I am trying to find out all the basic combination used for the virtualization. So I assume that as shown in your slides, the following alternative solutions could be used: 1. Tun/Tap - Recently tap PMD patch sent 2. af_packet 3. virtio-user + vhost-net 4. Bifurcated driver Am I right? Or is there any new feature? BR. Bing