[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/4] security: enforce semantics for Tx inline processing

[Akhil Goyal]

> Not all net PMD's/HW can parse packet and identify L2 header and
> L3 header locations on Tx. This is inline with other Tx offloads
> requirements such as L3 checksum, L4 checksum offload, etc,
> where mbuf.l2_len, mbuf.l3_len etc, needs to be set for HW to be
> able to generate checksum. Since Inline IPSec is also such a Tx
> offload, some PMD's at least need mbuf.l2_len to be valid to
> find L3 header and perform Outbound IPSec processing.
> 
> Hence, this patch updates documentation to enforce setting
> mbuf.l2_len while setting PKT_TX_SEC_OFFLOAD in mbuf.ol_flags
> for Inline IPSec Crypto / Protocol offload processing to
> work on Tx.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil at marvell.com>