> > Not all net PMD's/HW can parse packet and identify L2 header and > L3 header locations on Tx. This is inline with other Tx offloads > requirements such as L3 checksum, L4 checksum offload, etc, > where mbuf.l2_len, mbuf.l3_len etc, needs to be set for HW to be > able to generate checksum. Since Inline IPSec is also such a Tx > offload, some PMD's at least need mbuf.l2_len to be valid to > find L3 header and perform Outbound IPSec processing. > > Hence, this patch updates documentation to enforce setting > mbuf.l2_len while setting PKT_TX_SEC_OFFLOAD in mbuf.ol_flags > for Inline IPSec Crypto / Protocol offload processing to > work on Tx. > > Signed-off-by: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpu...@marvell.com> > Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.anan...@intel.com> > Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gak...@marvell.com>
Title updated as mbuf: enforce semantics for Tx inline IPSec processing Series Applied to dpdk-next-crypto
