Hi Abhinandan,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gujjar, Abhinandan S
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 6:35 AM
> To: Akhil Goyal <akhil.go...@nxp.com>; Doherty, Declan
> <declan.dohe...@intel.com>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo
> <pablo.de.lara.gua...@intel.com>; Jacob, Jerin
> <jerin.jacobkollanukka...@cavium.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Vangati, Narender <narender.vang...@intel.com>; Rao,
> Nikhil <nikhil....@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] lib/cryptodev: add support to set session private
> data
>
> Hi Akhil,
>
...
> I guess, you are suggesting below changes:
> diff --git a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h
> b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h
> index 56958a6..057c39a 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h
> @@ -892,6 +892,8 @@ struct rte_cryptodev_data {
>
> /** Cryptodev symmetric crypto session */ struct
> rte_cryptodev_sym_session {
> + uint16_t private_data_offset;
> + /**< Private data offset */
> __extension__ void *sess_private_data[0];
> /**< Private session material */ }; I am ok with this.
>
> Declan/Pablo,
> Is this ok? Do you see any impact on performance or anything else has to be
> considered?
This is breaking ABI, and since there is a zero length array, this latter has
to be at the end of the structure.
Therefore, this is not a valid option unless ABI deprecation is announced and
then it could be merged in the next release.
Pablo
