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> Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 10/12] net/ixgbe: enable inline ipsec
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ananyev, Konstantin
> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2017 12:04 PM
> > To: Nicolau, Radu <[email protected]>; Akhil Goyal
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> > Cc: Doherty, Declan <[email protected]>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo
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> > Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 10/12] net/ixgbe: enable inline ipsec
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> >
> > > >
> > > >> <snip>
> > > >> +
> > > >> +static int
> > > >> +ixgbe_crypto_update_mb(void *device __rte_unused,
> > > >> +              struct rte_security_session *session,
> > > >> +                     struct rte_mbuf *m, void *params __rte_unused) {
> > > >> +      struct ixgbe_crypto_session *ic_session =
> > > >> +                      get_sec_session_private_data(session);
> > > >> +      if (ic_session->op == IXGBE_OP_AUTHENTICATED_ENCRYPTION) {
> > > >> +              struct ixgbe_crypto_tx_desc_md *mdata =
> > > >> +                      (struct ixgbe_crypto_tx_desc_md *)&m->udata64;
> > > >> +              mdata->enc = 1;
> > > >> +              mdata->sa_idx = ic_session->sa_index;
> > > >> +              mdata->pad_len = *rte_pktmbuf_mtod_offset(m,
> > > >> +                      uint8_t *, rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(m) - 18) + 18;
> > > > Could you explain what pad_len supposed to contain?
> > > > Also what is a magical constant '18'?
> > > > Could you create some macro if needed?
> > > I added an explanation in the code, we read the payload padding size
> > > that is stored at the len-18 bytes and add 18 bytes, 2 for ESP trailer
> > > and 16 for ICV.
> >
> > Ok, can we at least have a macros for all these constants?
> > Another question: you do use pkt_len() here - does it mean that multi-
> > segment packets are not supported by ixgbe-ipsec?
> > Konstantin
> It does support multisegment, but the pad_len has to be set only for single 
> send, it will be ignored otherwise. I have updated the code to set
> it for single segment packets only.

Sorry, I didn't understand that.
If that function does support multiseg packets, then it has to go to the last 
segment via m->next,
If it doesn't, then it should return an error I case of m->nb_seg != 1.
Right?

> Also, our test app does not support multisegment packets.

Ok, I suppose that means, multi-seg case wasn't tested :)




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