Re: [PATCH] maintainers: claim responsability for xen

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:06:18PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:

quoted

Any news about Xen dom0 status in DPDK?

I think there is not enough interest for Xen dom0 in the DPDK community.
Last time we talked about, it was because of a severe bug which is not
fixed yet:
      http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044207.html
      http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044376.html

The request (6 month ago) was to give more time for feedbacks:
      http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044847.html

Is it time now to officially remove Dom0 support?

So we do have an prototype implementation of netback but it is waiting
for review of xen-devel to the spec.

And I believe the implementation does utilize some of the dom0
parts of code in DPDK.

FWIW I've also tested the 16.11 code in a Xen PV domU with uses the
xen_dom0 module due to the lack of hugepages.