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

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 03:28:19PM +0000, Gray, Mark D wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 1:19 AM
> > To: Gray, Mark D <mark.d.gray at intel.com>
> > Cc: Wojciechowicz, RobertX <robertx.wojciechowicz at intel.com>;
> > stable at dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Devlin,
> > Michelle <michelle.devlin at intel.com>; Weglicki, MichalX
> > <michalx.weglicki at intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> > <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] vhost: many vhost user ports (backporting to
> > v16.11)
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:19:33AM +0000, Gray, Mark D wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Wojciechowicz, RobertX
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 8:51 AM
> > > > To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>; Gray, Mark D
> > > > <mark.d.gray at intel.com>
> > > > Cc: stable at dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>;
> > > > Devlin, Michelle <michelle.devlin at intel.com>; Weglicki, MichalX
> > > > <michalx.weglicki at intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> > > > <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> > > > 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?
> > 
> > Yes, but the stable tree is located at
> > 
> >     http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > 
> > 	--yliu
> 
> Thanks, Ian updated the ovs docs to reflect this. Thanks, this stable branch really helps us.
> 
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-February/328914.html

JFYI, the link address changes every time we make a release, something
like:

    http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.1.tar.xz
    http://fast.dpdk.org/rel/dpdk-16.11.2.tar.xz
    ...

And v16.11.1 is liekly to be released next week.

	--yliu