From db4b9190748deb3283ea3a96f1e52bd960800a4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akhil Goyal Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:41:14 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce API change for cryptodev sessions info A new parameter is planned to be added in 17.05 release in rte_cryptodev_info.sym - max_nb_sessions_per_qp. This will allow applications to know the maximum number of session which can be attached to queue_pairs of device. Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal Acked-by: Declan Doherty Acked-by: Fiona Trahe Acked-by: Pablo de Lara --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 8b3d9bf29c..9d4dfcc158 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -123,6 +123,11 @@ Deprecation Notices A pointer to a rte_cryptodev_config structure will be added to the function prototype ``cryptodev_configure_t``, as a new parameter. +* cryptodev: A new parameter ``max_nb_sessions_per_qp`` will be added to + ``rte_cryptodev_info.sym``. Some drivers may support limited number of + sessions per queue_pair. With this new parameter application will know + how many sessions can be mapped to each queue_pair of a device. + * distributor: library API will be changed to incorporate a burst-oriented API. This will include a change to ``rte_distributor_create`` to specify which type of instance to create (single or burst), and -- 2.20.1