[PATCH v3 0/4] ethdev: introduce IP reassembly offload

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 1/30/2022 5:59 PM, Akhil Goyal wrote:
> As discussed in the RFC[1] sent in 21.11, a new offload is
> introduced in ethdev for IP reassembly.
> 
> This patchset add the IP reassembly RX offload.
> Currently, the offload is tested along with inline IPsec processing.
> It can also be updated as a standalone offload without IPsec, if there
> are some hardware available to test it.
> The patchset is tested on cnxk platform. The driver implementation
> and a test app are added as separate patchsets.> 

Can you please share the links of those sets?

> [1]: http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210823100259.1619886-1-gakhil@marvell.com/
> 
> changes in v3:
> - incorporated comments from Andrew and Stephen Hemminger
> 
> changes in v2:
> - added abi ignore exceptions for modifications in reserved fields.
>    Added a crude way to subside the rte_security and rte_ipsec ABI issue.
>    Please suggest a better way.
> - incorporated Konstantin's comment for extra checks in new API
>    introduced.
> - converted static mbuf ol_flag to mbuf dynflag (Konstantin)
> - added a get API for reassembly configuration (Konstantin)
> - Fixed checkpatch issues.
> - Dynfield is NOT split into 2 parts as it would cause an extra fetch in
>    case of IP reassembly failure.
> - Application patches are split into a separate series.
> 
> 
> Akhil Goyal (4):
>    ethdev: introduce IP reassembly offload
>    ethdev: add dev op to set/get IP reassembly configuration
>    ethdev: add mbuf dynfield for incomplete IP reassembly
>    security: add IPsec option for IP reassembly
> 
>   devtools/libabigail.abignore |  19 ++++++
>   doc/guides/nics/features.rst |  12 ++++
>   lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.h   |  45 +++++++++++++++
>   lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c      | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.h      | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   lib/ethdev/version.map       |   5 ++
>   lib/security/rte_security.h  |  12 +++-
>   7 files changed, 300 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>