From patchwork Thu Nov 17 13:27:21 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ferruh Yigit X-Patchwork-Id: 17073 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D31B558B; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:27:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2B0F72 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:27:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 17 Nov 2016 05:27:24 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.31,506,1473145200"; d="scan'208";a="32379389" Received: from sivswdev02.ir.intel.com ([10.237.217.46]) by orsmga005.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 17 Nov 2016 05:27:24 -0800 From: Ferruh Yigit To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Ferruh Yigit Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:27:21 +0000 Message-Id: <20161117132721.13106-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.4 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce kni_vhost removal X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit Acked-by: John McNamara Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: Bruce Richardson Acked-by: Pablo de Lara --- doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst | 2 ++ doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst index eb16e2e..4f25595 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst @@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ This provides flexibility in multiprocess scenarios (where the KNI is created in the primary process but the callbacks are handled in the secondary one). The constraint is that a single process can register and handle the requests. +.. _kni_vhost_backend-label: + KNI Working as a Kernel vHost Backend ------------------------------------- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 2d17bc6..956473a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -71,3 +71,9 @@ Deprecation Notices * mempool: The functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and will be removed in 17.02. It is replaced by ``rte_mempool_generic_get/put`` functions. + +* kni: Remove :ref:`kni_vhost_backend-label` feature (KNI_VHOST) in 17.05 release. + :doc:`Vhost Library ` is currently preferred method for + guest - host communication. Just for clarification, this is not to remove KNI + or VHOST feature, but KNI_VHOST which is a KNI feature enabled via a compile + time option, and disabled by default.