> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: deprecate vhost-cuse > > 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 <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com> > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index f502f86..ee99558 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -41,3 +41,7 @@ Deprecation Notices > * The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are > deprecated and > will be removed in 16.11. > It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions. > + > +* The vhost-cuse will be removed in 16.11. Since v2.1, a large majority of > + development effort has gone to vhost-user, such as multiple-queue, live > + migration, reconnect etc. Therefore, vhost-user should be used instead. > -- > 1.9.0
Acked-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>
