From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Blunck Subject: Re: DPDK on Xen maintenance Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:30:36 +0000 Message-ID: <1468405836.28473.15.camel@brocade.com> References: <1795705.pPV7SVCssA@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "huawei.xie@intel.com" , "huilongx.xu@intel.com" , "thiagocmartinsc@gmail.com" To: "thomas.monjalon@6wind.com" , "dev@dpdk.org" Return-path: Received: from mx0b-000f0801.pphosted.com (mx0b-000f0801.pphosted.com [67.231.152.113]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826E62B98 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:30:42 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1795705.pPV7SVCssA@xps13> Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Di, 2016-07-12 at 11:34 +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > We are facing some issues with Xen dom0. > Some were fixed in RC2: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__dpdk.org_ml > _archives_dev_2016- > 2DJuly_043760.html&d=3DCwICAg&c=3DIL_XqQWOjubgfqINi2jTzg&r=3DeGq7Pg5OSP44= 0n > QUcjb02I48YXd7Ce6OiSj9BMaGZiE&m=3D98n7rM-Tjze4nm2MUpU8Etvo5lAB- > oe0KXsst27ujkw&s=3DAHzBPDmKhqbsIc8pb2x_s7ShJvDhf93AsXRAm43EXlM&e=3D=A0 > and there still have some other issues. >=20 > It seems Xen is becoming less attractive: > - we do not have a lot of test reports or feedbacks > - there is no maintainer for DPDK on Xen > - we are still waiting for the Xen netfront PMD >=20 Although progress is slow I'm still working on upstreaming the Xen netfront PMD. I will continue to maintain it afterwards of course. > I wonder wether it still makes sense to maintain this code or not? > In case of positive reply, it would be nice to have the name of > someone responsible for this code, i.e. a maintainer. >=20 > Thanks=