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On 8/30/2018 11:35 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > These patches are against dpdk-net-next/master because > that is where previous patches have already been merged. > > Stephen Hemminger (5): > bus/vmbus: add devargs support > net/netvsc: allow tuning latency with devargs > net/netvsc: exhausting transmit descriptors is not an error > net/netvsc: implement link state change callback > net/netvsc: integrated VF support A highlevel question, since netvsc PMD is upstreamed, can we remove vdev_netvsc one?
On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:04:18 +0100 Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote: > On 8/30/2018 11:35 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > These patches are against dpdk-net-next/master because > > that is where previous patches have already been merged. > > > > Stephen Hemminger (5): > > bus/vmbus: add devargs support > > net/netvsc: allow tuning latency with devargs > > net/netvsc: exhausting transmit descriptors is not an error > > net/netvsc: implement link state change callback > > net/netvsc: integrated VF support > > A highlevel question, since netvsc PMD is upstreamed, can we remove vdev_netvsc one? No. There are some use cases that still need bifurcated model. And also netvsc PMD is still in experimental state and vdev_netvsc/failsafe/tap are more stable. I hope maybe by 19.11?
31/08/2018 17:15, Stephen Hemminger: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:04:18 +0100 > Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote: > > > On 8/30/2018 11:35 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > These patches are against dpdk-net-next/master because > > > that is where previous patches have already been merged. > > > > > > Stephen Hemminger (5): > > > bus/vmbus: add devargs support > > > net/netvsc: allow tuning latency with devargs > > > net/netvsc: exhausting transmit descriptors is not an error > > > net/netvsc: implement link state change callback > > > net/netvsc: integrated VF support > > > > A highlevel question, since netvsc PMD is upstreamed, can we remove vdev_netvsc one? > > No. > > There are some use cases that still need bifurcated model. And also netvsc PMD > is still in experimental state and vdev_netvsc/failsafe/tap are more stable. > > I hope maybe by 19.11? 19.11 would be reasonnable target to deprecate vdev_netvsc.
On 8/30/2018 11:35 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > These patches are against dpdk-net-next/master because > that is where previous patches have already been merged. > > Stephen Hemminger (5): > bus/vmbus: add devargs support > net/netvsc: allow tuning latency with devargs > net/netvsc: exhausting transmit descriptors is not an error > net/netvsc: implement link state change callback > net/netvsc: integrated VF support Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks. (checkpatches.sh update dropped from patch, devarg syntax in function comment updated.)