From be7c7cce250d5f00e53953960c3452c492ab8d26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akhil Goyal Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 21:02:11 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for cryptodev/ethdev offloads Support for security operations is planned to be added in ethdev and cryptodev for the 17.11 release. For this following changes are required. - rte_cryptodev and rte_eth_dev structures need to be added new parameter rte_security_ops which extend support for security ops to the corresponding driver. - rte_cryptodev_info and rte_ethd_dev_info need to be added with rte_security_capabilities to identify the capabilities of the corresponding driver. Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal Acked-by: Pablo de Lara Acked-by: Boris Pismenny Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index dcf2062035..5ab45725e3 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -86,6 +86,16 @@ Deprecation Notices The size of the unique name will increase RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN from 32 to 64 characters to allow using a globally unique identifier (GUID) in this field. +* ethdev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and + ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` and + ``rte_eth_dev`` respectively to support security operations like + ipsec inline. + +* cryptodev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and + ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_cryptodev_info`` and + ``rte_cryptodev`` respectively to support security protocol offloaded + operations. + * librte_table: The ``key_mask`` parameter will be added to all the hash tables that currently do not have it, as well as to the hash compute function prototype. The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed -- 2.20.1