From: "Jain, Deepak K" <deepak.k.jain@intel.com>
To: "De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>,
"thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com" <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
"akhil.goyal@nxp.com" <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>,
"hemant.agrawal@nxp.com" <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
"Trahe, Fiona" <fiona.trahe@intel.com>,
"Griffin, John" <john.griffin@intel.com>,
"Doherty, Declan" <declan.doherty@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change in crypto driver allocation
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 14:14:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A09C9DDE180C7E429EC68E2BFB95C9036291E785@IRSMSX107.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170803010236.17503-1-pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: De Lara Guarch, Pablo
> Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 2:03 AM
> To: thomas@monjalon.net; jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com;
> akhil.goyal@nxp.com; hemant.agrawal@nxp.com; Trahe, Fiona
> <fiona.trahe@intel.com>; Jain, Deepak K <deepak.k.jain@intel.com>;
> Griffin, John <john.griffin@intel.com>; Doherty, Declan
> <declan.doherty@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; De Lara Guarch, Pablo <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce API change in crypto driver allocation
>
> rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver() function gets one parameter (rte_driver), as
> the cryptodev_driver structure is allocated inside the function with
> rte_malloc.
>
> This function is called from a constructor function, when crypto PMDs are
> registered.
> If malloc fails, there is no way to recover from it, so it is better to allocate this
> structure statically, in each PMD.
>
> Therefore, it is required to add an extra parameter in this function, to also
> get a pointer to this structure.
>
> - ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev``
> +
> +* cryptodev: the following function will have an extra parameter,
> +passing a
> + statically allocated crypto driver structure, instead of calling
> +malloc,
> + in 17.11:
> +
> + - ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver``
> --
> 2.9.4
Acked-by: Deepak Kumar Jain <Deepak.k.jain@intel.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-03 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-03 1:02 Pablo de Lara
2017-08-03 10:39 ` Mcnamara, John
2017-08-03 10:43 ` Akhil Goyal
2017-08-08 10:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-03 14:14 ` Jain, Deepak K [this message]
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