[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce ABI change for cryptodev and ethdev

Akhil Goyal akhil.goyal at nxp.com
Tue Aug 8 09:09:43 CEST 2017


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_eth_dev_info need to be added
with rte_security_capabilities to identify the capabilities of
the corresponding driver.
- rte_security_session needs to be added in the union inside
structure rte_crypto_sym_op to decide between various types of
sessions

Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal at nxp.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>
Acked-by: Boris Pismenny <borisp at mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>
---
changes in v2:
Added one more ABI change wrt to security session,
This patch is not split into 3 patches as these all will be implemented
simultaneously with rte_security support.

 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 72d1f35..e34a809 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -78,3 +78,18 @@ Deprecation Notices
   be removed in 17.11:
 
   - ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev``
+
+* cryptodev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
+  ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_cryptodev_info`` and
+  ``rte_cryptodev`` respectively to support security protocol offloaded
+  operations.
+
+* cryptodev: new parameter ``rte_security_session`` will be added in the union
+  of the structure ``rte_crypto_sym_op``, so that the user can choose either to
+  use ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session`` or ``rte_crypto_sym_xform`` or
+  ``rte_security_session``.
+
+* ethdev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
+  ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` and
+  ``rte_eth_dev`` respectively  to support security operations like
+  ipsec inline.
-- 
2.9.3



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