[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/10] ethdev: introduce MACSEC device ops

Igor Russkikh Igor.Russkikh at aquantia.com
Fri Apr 12 10:50:28 CEST 2019


>>> Please can you explain how it is related to rte_security?
>>
>> It is not.
>> Do you mean macsec control API could be moved and logically be a part of rte_security api?
>> I can't comment now on how feasible is this. Moreover this depends on how Intel considers
>> and uses the existing macsec offload in ixgbe.
> 
> There are RTE_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MACSEC and rte_security_macsec_* structs
> in librte_security.
> Please check how it can be used while defining an ethdev API.

There is nothing in rte_security defined explicitly for macsec except that enum item.
All the macsec structures are dummy. Was there any intent to implement this?

I can writeup the generic macsec structures for rte_security, do you think that's feasible?

Regards,
  Igor


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