Re: [PATCH 0/5] netvsc changes for 18.11
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2018-08-31 15:15:24
On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:04:18 +0100 Ferruh Yigit [off-list ref] wrote:
On 8/30/2018 11:35 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:quoted
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 supportA 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?