Hi, "Out-of-place" operation means the result of the operation will be written to the destination buffer instead of overwriting the source buffer as done in "in-place" operation.
-----Original Message----- From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 1:02 PM To: Trahe, Fiona <fiona.trahe at intel.com>; Kusztal, ArkadiuszX <arkadiuszx.kusztal at intel.com> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Doherty, Declan <declan.doherty at intel.com> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] driver/crypto: out-of-place symmetric operations 2016-03-29 10:39, Fiona Trahe: > From: Arek Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusztal at intel.com> > > Driver now support out of place crypto operations, driver assumes both > buffers can be of different size. Please, could you explain what exactly means "out of place" operations?