[dpdk-dev] doc: announce ivshmem support removal

2016-07-28 Thread Mauricio Vasquez
Hello All, Here in Politecnico di Torino we use the ivshmem technology from a research point of view. Our research efforts focus in optimizing the inter-Virtual Network Function communication, currently we have implemented two versions of our prototype, they are described in [1] and [2]. Unfo

[dpdk-dev] doc: announce ivshmem support removal

2016-07-28 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi Thomas, just my two cents as Ubuntu DPDK maintainer (and part of the Debian Team that does the same). (It seems I can reuse that line for all posts about the deprecation notices :-) ) While IVSHMEM was enabled (as it was the default) I never heard of any users of what we provided so far. But th

[dpdk-dev] doc: announce ivshmem support removal

2016-07-27 Thread Jan Viktorin
On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:35:46 +0200 Thomas Monjalon wrote: > There was a prior call with an explanation of what needs to be done: > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/040844.html > - Qemu patch upstreamed > - IVSHMEM PCI device managed by a PCI driver > - No DPDK objects (ring/mempool

[dpdk-dev] doc: announce ivshmem support removal

2016-07-27 Thread Maxime Coquelin
On 07/20/2016 06:35 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > There was a prior call with an explanation of what needs to be done: > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/040844.html > - Qemu patch upstreamed > - IVSHMEM PCI device managed by a PCI driver > - No DPDK objects (ring/mempool) allocated