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doc: announce KNI vhost removal

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Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
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doc/guides/prog_guide/kernel_nic_interface.rst
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@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ This provides flexibility in multiprocess scenarios
(where the KNI is created in the primary process but the callbacks are handled in the secondary one).
The constraint is that a single process can register and handle the requests.
.. _kni_vhost_backend-label:
KNI Working as a Kernel vHost Backend
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@ -113,6 +113,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
has different feature set, meaning functions like ``rte_vhost_feature_disable``
need be changed. Last, file rte_virtio_net.h will be renamed to rte_vhost.h.
* kni: Remove :ref:`kni_vhost_backend-label` feature (KNI_VHOST) in 17.05 release.
:doc:`Vhost Library </prog_guide/vhost_lib>` is currently preferred method for
guest - host communication. Just for clarification, this is not to remove KNI
or VHOST feature, but KNI_VHOST which is a KNI feature enabled via a compile
time option, and disabled by default.
* distributor: library API will be changed to incorporate a burst-oriented
API. This will include a change to ``rte_distributor_create``
to specify which type of instance to create (single or burst), and