[EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] doc: announce addition of new ipsec event subtypes

Akhil Goyal gakhil at marvell.com
Tue Jul 12 17:30:18 CEST 2022


> 27/06/2022 07:29, Vamsi Attunuru:
> > New event subtypes need to be added for notifying expiry events
> > upon reaching IPsec SA soft packet expiry and hard packet/byte
> > expiry limits. This would be added in DPDK 22.11.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vamsi Attunuru <vattunuru at marvell.com>
> > Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil at marvell.com>
> > ---
> > More details on new event subtype proposal discussion are in below email
> thread.
> > https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20220416192530.173895-8-gakhil@marvell.com/> >
> > v2: rephrase title and git log.
> > ---
> > +* ethdev: The enum ``rte_eth_event_ipsec_subtype`` would be extended to
> add
> > +  new subtype values ``RTE_ETH_EVENT_IPSEC_SA_PKT_EXPIRY``,
> > +  ``RTE_ETH_EVENT_IPSEC_SA_BYTE_HARD_EXPIRY`` and
> > +  ``RTE_ETH_EVENT_IPSEC_SA_PKT_HARD_EXPIRY`` in DPDK 22.11.
> 
> While at it, would you consider avoiding future ABI breakage
> with RTE_ETH_EVENT_IPSEC_MAX?

For MAX values there is already a generic notice. Do you want to mention this here as well?
IMO, it is not required. We can work on it, but do not need explicit mention here.

Regards,
Akhil


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