[ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC 1/1] netdev-dpdk: add dpdk vhost-user ports

[Pravin Shelar]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Rogers, Gerald <gerald.rogers at intel.com> wrote:
> Pravin,
>
> There are some deployments that are using or require older OS
> distributions using qemu versions prior to version 2.1, thus would require
> the support for vHost-cuse. Most general reason is qualification cycles
> for new OS versions.  The patch provides compile time support for choosing
> which vHost version to use.  The support for vhost-cuse should be kept for
> at least several releases with documentation indicating it will be
> eventually deprecated.
>
If that is the case we can keep both implementations. As Flavio
suggested we can document the vhost-cuse support better.