[dpdk-dev] [RFC] examples: remove l3fwd-vf example

[Wu, Jingjing]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 4:28 PM
> To: Jayakumar, Muthurajan
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] examples: remove l3fwd-vf example
> 
> 2015-07-14 08:20, Jayakumar, Muthurajan:
> > Can you please share as what is the benefit of removing l3fwd-vf example?
> > Customers have been using this very much.
> > Please let me know what is the disadvantage of keeping l3fwd-vf.
> 
> What is the benefit of keeping an example which can be replaced?
> 
> "Because VF multi-queues can be supported, l3fwd can run on vf."
> 
> Removing some code is a nice goal from a maintenance point of view.

Yes, the l3fwd-vf example is almost the same as l3fwd, it is just used when VF can only support one queue.
Because VF multi-queues is supported, l3fwd running on vf is a better choice.