[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: added inline crypto feature

Radu Nicolau radu.nicolau at intel.com
Wed Nov 8 16:40:17 CET 2017



On 11/8/2017 3:13 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 08/11/2017 15:31, Radu Nicolau:
>> On 11/8/2017 2:22 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> 08/11/2017 14:26, Radu Nicolau:
>>>> +
>>>> +Inline crypto
>>>> +-------------
>>>> +
>>>> +Supports inline crypto processing (eg. inline IPsec). See Security library for more details.
>>> As there are several types of inline crypto, don't you think it deserves
>>> several separate features?
>> We don't differentiate in the offload, net, mbuf APIs; it's all
>> "security offload".
>> rte_security is the one that deals with different kinds of inline
>> crypto, but in the NIC section it's all the same.
> OK
> How can we document which kind of inline crypto is supported with which device?
I propose to change "See Security library for more details" to "See 
Security library and PMD documentation for more details" and update 
ixgbe.rst with an "inline crypto" section.


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