doc: announce changes in IPsec SA config option struct
authorArchana Muniganti <marchana@marvell.com>
Sat, 31 Jul 2021 17:44:28 +0000 (23:14 +0530)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Sat, 7 Aug 2021 17:18:56 +0000 (19:18 +0200)
Propose new fields to support offloads like
- IPsec inner checksum(L3/L4)
- IPsec tunnel header verification
- TSO
- etc
in the structure ``rte_security_ipsec_sa_options``.

Signed-off-by: Archana Muniganti <marchana@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejasree Kondoj <ktejasree@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst

index bf1d56d..55c866d 100644 (file)
@@ -194,6 +194,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
   SA lifetime configuration. A new structure would be introduced to replace the
   current member, ``esn_soft_limit``.
 
+* security: The IPsec SA config options ``struct rte_security_ipsec_sa_options``
+  will be updated with new fields to support new features like IPsec inner
+  checksum, tunnel header verification, TSO in case of protocol offload.
+
 * eventdev: The file ``rte_eventdev_pmd.h`` will be renamed to ``eventdev_driver.h``
   to make the driver interface as internal and the structures ``rte_eventdev_data``,
   ``rte_eventdev`` and ``rte_eventdevs`` will be moved to a new file named