On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 18:21 +0000, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> 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.lof...@intel.com>
> Cc: Stephen Finucane <step...@that.guru>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com>
Looks a-OK to me. Delighted I don't have to populate that IVSHMEM topic
guide too :)
Acked-by: Stephen Finucane <step...@that.guru>
Stephen
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