04/08/2017 07:26, Hemant Agrawal: > On 8/3/2017 9:02 PM, Akhil Goyal wrote: > > Support for security operations is planned to be added > > in ethdev and cryptodev for the 17.11 release. > > > > For this following changes are required. > > - rte_cryptodev and rte_eth_dev structures need to be added > > new parameter rte_security_ops which extend support for > > security ops to the corresponding driver. > > - rte_cryptodev_info and rte_ethd_dev_info need to be added > > with rte_security_capabilities to identify the capabilities of > > the corresponding driver.
It is not explained what is the fundamental difference between rte_security and rte_crypto? It looks to be just a technical workaround. Why the ABI would be changed by rte_security additions? > > Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.go...@nxp.com> > > > Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com> No more opinions outside of NXP? It seems there is not yet a consensus on how to manage IPsec offloading. I heard there were some phone calls about these stuff but nothing clear appears publicly on the mailing list. Looks to be a community failure.
