[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] doc: Remove ivshmem instructions.

Thu Jan 5 00:44:59 UTC 2017

2017-01-03 12:51 GMT-08:00 Mauricio Vasquez <mauricio.vasquez at polito.it>:
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> On 01/03/2017 01:21 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
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>> ivshmem is a path to the guest using DPDK rings that was
>> introduced before userspace vhost was available in the OVS-DPDK
>> datapath. ivshmem is external to OVS but the scheme of using it
>> with DPDK rings is documented.
>>
>> Remove ivshmem instruction documentation because:
>>
>> - The ivshmem library has been removed in DPDK since DPDK 16.11.
>> - The instructions/scheme provided will not work with current
>>    supported and future DPDK versions.
>> - The linked patch needed to enable support in QEMU has never
>>    been upstreamed and does not apply to the last 4 QEMU releases.
>> - Userspace vhost has become the defacto OVS-DPDK path to the guest.
>>
>> Fixes: 04de404e1bfa ("netdev-dpdk: Add support for DPDK 16.11")
>> Cc: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>
>> Cc: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
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> This was on my TODO list for a long time, unfortunately I didn't have the
> time for it.
>
> Acked-by: Mauricio Vasquez B <mauricio.vasquez at polito.it>

Applied to master, thanks!

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