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

[Thomas Monjalon]

31/08/2018 17:15, 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?

19.11 would be reasonnable target to deprecate vdev_netvsc.