[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] netvsc changes for 18.11

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:04:18 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:

> On 8/30/2018 11:35 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > These patches are against dpdk-net-next/master because
> > that is where previous patches have already been merged.
> > 
> > Stephen Hemminger (5):
> >   bus/vmbus: add devargs support
> >   net/netvsc: allow tuning latency with devargs
> >   net/netvsc: exhausting transmit descriptors is not an error
> >   net/netvsc: implement link state change callback
> >   net/netvsc: integrated VF support  
> 
> A highlevel question, since netvsc PMD is upstreamed, can we remove vdev_netvsc one?

No.

There are some use cases that still need bifurcated model. And also netvsc PMD
is still in experimental state and vdev_netvsc/failsafe/tap are more stable.

I hope maybe by 19.11?