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Re: Is network backend vde worth keeping? (was: Is network backend netma
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Julia Suvorova |
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Re: Is network backend vde worth keeping? (was: Is network backend netmap worth keeping?) |
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Thu, 10 Oct 2019 19:07:57 +0200 |
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 8:23 PM Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Please excuse the attention-grabbing subject.
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> Again.
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> [...]
> > So, to make use of QEMU's netmap backend (CONFIG_NETMAP), you have to
> > build and install netmap software from sources. Which pretty much
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> CONFIG_VDE seems to be similarly cumbersome to build-test.
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> > ensures nobody uses it. It was added in commit 58952137b0b (Nov 2013).
> [...]
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> The vde backend was added in commit 8a16d273887 (Jul 2008). The commit
> message blames it on Luca Bigliardi. Julia (cc'ed) fixed a bug in 2018.
This was a bugzilla entry dated 2010 from the BiteSizedTasks list. You
can definitely ignore this commit when deciding whether to keep vde
backend.
Best regards, Julia Suvorova.