There was a prior call with an explanation of what needs to be done: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/040844.html - Qemu patch upstreamed - IVSHMEM PCI device managed by a PCI driver - No DPDK objects (ring/mempool) allocated by EAL
As nobody seems interested, it is time to remove this code which makes EAL improvements harder. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 9cadf6a..1ef8460 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ Deprecation Notices will be removed in 16.11. It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions. +* The ``rte_ivshmem`` feature (including library and EAL code) will be removed + in 16.11 because it has some design issues which are not planned to be fixed. + * The ethtool support will be removed from KNI in 16.11. It is implemented only for igb and ixgbe. It is really hard to maintain because it requires some out-of-tree kernel -- 2.7.0