[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce change in crypto raw data vector

Hemant Agrawal hemant.agrawal at nxp.com
Thu Aug 5 10:05:38 CEST 2021


The current crypto raw data vectors need to be extended to support
out of place processing. It is proposed to add additional desl_sgl
to provide details for destination sgl.
The same is also extended to support rte_security usecases, where
we need total data length to know how much additional memory space
is available in buffer other than data length so that driver/HW
can write expanded size data after encryption.

Signed-off-by: Gagandeep Singh <G.Singh at nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index f4a4d00db2..c19a306c93 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -193,3 +193,15 @@ Deprecation Notices
   reserved bytes to 2 (from 3), and use 1 byte to indicate warnings and other
   information from the crypto/security operation. This field will be used to
   communicate events such as soft expiry with IPsec in lookaside mode.
+
+* cryptodev: The structure ``rte_crypto_sym_vec`` would be updated to add
+  ``dest_sgl`` to support out of place processing. This field will be null for
+  inplace processing. This change is targeted for DPDK 21.11
+
+* cryptodev: The structure ``rte_crypto_vec`` would be updated to add
+  ``tot_len`` to support total buffer length. This is required for security
+  cases like IPsec and PDCP encryption offload to know how much additional
+  memory space is available in buffer other than data length so that driver/HW
+  can write expanded size data after encryption. This change is targeted for
+  DPDK 21.11
+
-- 
2.17.1



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