On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Traynor, Kevin <kevin.tray...@intel.com> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Pravin Shelar >> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 6:08 PM >> To: Flavio Leitner >> Cc: dev@openvswitch.org >> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC 1/1] netdev-dpdk: add dpdk vhost-user ports >> >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Flavio Leitner <f...@sysclose.org> wrote: >> > On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:53:14 -0700 >> > Pravin Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com> wrote: >> > >> >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Ciara Loftus >> >> <ciara.lof...@intel.com> wrote: >> >> > This patch adds support for a new port type to the userspace >> >> > datapath called dpdkvhostuser. It adds to the existing >> >> > infrastructure of vhost-cuse, however disables vhost-cuse ports in >> >> > favour of vhost-user ports. >> >> > >> >> > A new dpdkvhostuser port will create a unix domain socket which when >> >> > provided to QEMU is used to facilitate communication between the >> >> > virtio-net device on the VM and the OVS port. >> >> > >> >> Thanks for the patch. I have pushed OVS DPDK vHost cuse patch. Once we >> >> add support for vhost user, vhost-cuse support should be dropped. >> > >> > Do you mean to literally take vhost-cuse out of the code? If so, yes, >> > I think that makes sense. >> > >> >> Yes. thats what I meant. > > One issue with removing is that vhost-user is only supported from QEMU 2.1.0 > onwards. If anyone is using an older version of QEMU they would not be able > to use vhost-user, whereas vhost-cuse will support older versions of QEMU. >
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