[dpdk-dev] doc: deprecate vhost-cuse

[Jan Viktorin]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 20:28:33 +0800
Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Vhost-cuse was invented before vhost-user exist. The both are actually
> doing the same thing: a vhost-net implementation in user space. But they
> are not exactly the same thing.
> 
> Firstly, vhost-cuse is harder for use; no one seems to care it, either.
> Furthermore, since v2.1, a large majority of development effort has gone
> to vhost-user. For example, we extended the vhost-user spec to add the
> multiple queue support. We also added the vhost-user live migration at
> v16.04 and the latest one, vhost-user reconnect that allows vhost app
> restart without restarting the guest. Both of them are very important
> features for product usage and none of them works for vhost-cuse.
> 
> You now see that the difference between vhost-user and vhost-cuse is
> big (and will be bigger and bigger as time moves forward), that you
> should never use vhost-cuse, that we should drop it completely.
> 
> The remove would also result to a much cleaner code base, allowing us
> to do all kinds of extending easier.
> 
> So here to mark vhost-cuse as deprecated in this release and will be
> removed in the next release (v16.11).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane at bigswitch.com>

Acked-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin at rehivetech.com>