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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] examples: remove l3fwd-vf example
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:28:17 +0200
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2015-07-14 08:20, Jayakumar, Muthurajan:
> Can you please share as what is the benefit of removing l3fwd-vf example?
> Customers have been using this very much.
> Please let me know what is the disadvantage of keeping l3fwd-vf.

What is the benefit of keeping an example which can be replaced?

"Because VF multi-queues can be supported, l3fwd can run on vf."

Removing some code is a nice goal from a maintenance point of view.