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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: deprecate vhost-cuse
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:31:28 +0200
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> > Vhost-cuse was invented before vhost-user exist. The both are actually
> > doing the same thing: a vhost-net implementation in user space. But they
> > are not exactly the same thing.
> > 
> > Firstly, vhost-cuse is harder for use; no one seems to care it, either.
> > Furthermore, since v2.1, a large majority of development effort has gone
> > to vhost-user. For example, we extended the vhost-user spec to add the
> > multiple queue support. We also added the vhost-user live migration at
> > v16.04 and the latest one, vhost-user reconnect that allows vhost app
> > restart without restarting the guest. Both of them are very important
> > features for product usage and none of them works for vhost-cuse.
> > 
> > You now see that the difference between vhost-user and vhost-cuse is
> > big (and will be bigger and bigger as time moves forward), that you
> > should never use vhost-cuse, that we should drop it completely.
> > 
> > The remove would also result to a much cleaner code base, allowing us
> > to do all kinds of extending easier.
> > 
> > So here to mark vhost-cuse as deprecated in this release and will be
> > removed in the next release (v16.11).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>