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

[Gray, Mark D]

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> stable at dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Devlin,
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> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] vhost: many vhost user ports (backporting to
> v16.11)
> 
> 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]
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> > > 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
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> > > > > 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.ht
> > ml
> 
> 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

I think this is probably OK as we would want to be up to date. The whole point
of LTS is that it is "stable" and we don't want to have to modify the OVS code/docs for
each release. However, we will see what the community thinks.