27/07/2021 19:36, Nithin Dabilpuram: > Announce changes to make rte_security_set_pkt_metadata() and > rte_security_get_userdata() inline instead of C functions and > also addition of another field in structure rte_security_ctx for > holding flags.
I guess there is a performance reason but the motivation is not explained. Also it is going in the opposite direction of what is discussed in the Technical Board meetings: we should avoid and reduce the number of inline functions to reduce the ABI surface.