[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] security: support user specified IV

[Anoob Joseph]

Enable user to provide IV to be used per security operation. This
would be used with lookaside protocol offload for comparing
against known vectors.

By default, PMD would generate IV internally and would be random.

Signed-off-by: Anoob Joseph <anoobj at marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejasree Kondoj <ktejasree at marvell.com>
---
 lib/security/rte_security.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/security/rte_security.h b/lib/security/rte_security.h
index 88d31de..b4b6776 100644
--- a/lib/security/rte_security.h
+++ b/lib/security/rte_security.h
@@ -181,6 +181,20 @@ struct rte_security_ipsec_sa_options {
 	 * * 0: Disable per session security statistics collection for this SA.
 	 */
 	uint32_t stats : 1;
+
+	/** Disable IV generation in PMD
+	 *
+	 * * 1: Disable IV generation in PMD. When disabled, IV provided in
+	 *      rte_crypto_op will be used by the PMD.
+	 *
+	 * * 0: Enable IV generation in PMD. When enabled, PMD generated random
+	 *      value would be used and application is not required to provide
+	 *      IV.
+	 *
+	 * Note: For inline cases, IV generation would always need to be handled
+	 * by the PMD.
+	 */
+	uint32_t iv_gen_disable : 1;
 };
 
 /** IPSec security association direction */
-- 
2.7.4