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| author | Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com> | 2017-01-03 18:21:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com> | 2017-01-04 16:35:18 -0800 |
| commit | 90ca71dd317fea1ccf0040389dae895aa7b2b561 (patch) | |
| tree | e9d8d39778e73d339de088cb1c54606a196d0084 /Documentation/index.rst | |
| parent | 932c96b7b0a42c2bdaeea11ada86c77cd820e7fd (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-90ca71dd317fea1ccf0040389dae895aa7b2b561.tar.gz | |
doc: Remove ivshmem instructions.
ivshmem is a path to the guest using DPDK rings that was
introduced before userspace vhost was available in the OVS-DPDK
datapath. ivshmem is external to OVS but the scheme of using it
with DPDK rings is documented.
Remove ivshmem instruction documentation because:
- The ivshmem library has been removed in DPDK since DPDK 16.11.
- The instructions/scheme provided will not work with current
supported and future DPDK versions.
- The linked patch needed to enable support in QEMU has never
been upstreamed and does not apply to the last 4 QEMU releases.
- Userspace vhost has become the defacto OVS-DPDK path to the guest.
Fixes: 04de404e1bfa ("netdev-dpdk: Add support for DPDK 16.11")
Cc: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Finucane <stephen@that.guru>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen@that.guru>
Acked-by: Mauricio Vasquez B <mauricio.vasquez@polito.it>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/index.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/index.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst index d799c9c0d..deb44d397 100644 --- a/Documentation/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/index.rst @@ -72,8 +72,7 @@ Deeper Dive :doc:`topics/porting` - **DPDK** :doc:`howto/dpdk` | - :doc:`topics/dpdk/vhost-user` | - :doc:`topics/dpdk/ivshmem` + :doc:`topics/dpdk/vhost-user` - **Windows** :doc:`topics/windows` |