[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] maintainers: claim responsability for xen

[Jan Blunck]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk at oracle.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:06:18PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>
>> 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.