On 7 February 2017 at 09:45, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > > Since I see that you guys have marked the kernel data plane of > openvswitch as experimental and that it "has not been thoroughly > tested" what is your long term plan for deprecation and eventual > removal of it from the tree? > > > https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/602e24ee189b76a72fdd26c9ed70c5f6b919a2f3
That's not the kernel dataplane being marked as experimental. Specifically, the entire sentence states: "The *userspace-only* mode of Open vSwitch without DPDK is considered experimental. It has not been thoroughly tested." (my emphasis) OVS provides a userspace datapath, which is shared between a version that uses DPDK devices and a version that uses tap devices. Previously both of these were marked as experimental. Over the past year the OVS-DPDK developers have been pushing to relax/remove this tag from the DPDK portion; this patch leaves the experimental tag in place for the version that does not use DPDK. > > If it's experimental and not being tested, I'm not too thrilled about > new feature patches and whatnot being posted which require developer > resources to audit and review if the official message is "don't use > this." The kernel openvswitch is very much still maintained, tested, and will continue to be used.
