[dpdk-stable] vhost: many vhost user ports (backporting to v16.11)

[Gray, Mark D]

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> Cc: stable at dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Devlin,
> Michelle <michelle.devlin at intel.com>; Weglicki, MichalX
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> Subject: RE: [dpdk-stable] vhost: many vhost user ports (backporting to
> v16.11)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > > It is also worth pointing out that OVS 2.7 will use 16.11
> >
> > One question though: will they use v16.11.1 or something like that?
> 
> @Mark do you know what exactly version OVS is going to use?
> 

We could specify what version to compile against in the documentation. OVS has a stable branch for 2.7 so we could update the documentation if we needed to use a specific tag/branch. In DPDK, does each stable release get tagged?