[dpdk-dev] [PATCH V2] crypto/octeontx: enable unbinding for the OCTEON TX crypto engines

Thierry Herbelot thierry.herbelot at 6wind.com
Fri Sep 13 08:40:03 CEST 2019


Like for Ethernet ports, the OCTEON TX crypto engines must first be unbound
from their kernel module, then rebound to vfio-pci, before being usable
in DPDK.

As this capability is detected at runtime by dpdk-pmdinfo, add the info
in the PMD registering directives.

Then an external script can be used for bind and unbind.

Fixes: bfe2ae495ee268 ('crypto/octeontx: add PMD skeleton')
Cc: stable at dpdk.org
Cc: anoobj at marvell.com

V2: only "vfio-pci" is needed by this PMD

Signed-off-by: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot at 6wind.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/octeontx/otx_cryptodev.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/octeontx/otx_cryptodev.c b/drivers/crypto/octeontx/otx_cryptodev.c
index fc64a5f3041f..8df4b710c874 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/octeontx/otx_cryptodev.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/octeontx/otx_cryptodev.c
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ static struct cryptodev_driver otx_cryptodev_drv;
 
 RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PCI(CRYPTODEV_NAME_OCTEONTX_PMD, otx_cryptodev_pmd);
 RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PCI_TABLE(CRYPTODEV_NAME_OCTEONTX_PMD, pci_id_cpt_table);
+RTE_PMD_REGISTER_KMOD_DEP(CRYPTODEV_NAME_OCTEONTX_PMD, "vfio-pci");
 RTE_PMD_REGISTER_CRYPTO_DRIVER(otx_cryptodev_drv, otx_cryptodev_pmd.driver,
 		otx_cryptodev_driver_id);
 
-- 
2.20.1



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