> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 4:28 PM > To: Jayakumar, Muthurajan > Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] examples: remove l3fwd-vf example > > 2015-07-14 08:20, Jayakumar, Muthurajan: > > Can you please share as what is the benefit of removing l3fwd-vf example? > > Customers have been using this very much. > > Please let me know what is the disadvantage of keeping l3fwd-vf. > > What is the benefit of keeping an example which can be replaced? > > "Because VF multi-queues can be supported, l3fwd can run on vf." > > Removing some code is a nice goal from a maintenance point of view.
Yes, the l3fwd-vf example is almost the same as l3fwd, it is just used when VF can only support one queue. Because VF multi-queues is supported, l3fwd running on vf is a better choice.
