On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:36 PM David Coyle <david.co...@intel.com> wrote: > A number of approaches to combine DOCSIS Crypto and CRC functions have > been discussed in the DPDK community to date, namely: > 1) adding a new rte_accelerator API, to provide a generic interface for > combining operations of different types > 2) using rawdev through a multi-function interface, again to provide a > generic interface for combining operations of different types > 3) adding support for DOCSIS Crypto-CRC to rte_security > > The third option above is the preferred approach for the following > reasons: > - it addresses the immediate use case to add DOCSIS Crypto-CRC support to > DPDK so that it can be consumed easily by cable equipment vendors > - it uses an already existing framework in DPDK > - it will mean much less code churn in DOCSIS applications, which already > use rte_cryptodev for encryption/decryption
I guess https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=9304 can be marked Superseded then. Thanks. -- David Marchand
