Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH v5 14/15] test/crypto: add raw API test for dpaax

[Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>]

> 
> 20/10/2021 11:15, Akhil Goyal:
> > > 17/10/2021 18:16, Hemant Agrawal:
> > > > This patch add support for raw API tests for
> > > > dpaa_sec and dpaa2_sec platforms.
> > >
> > > Why do we have tests specific to some drivers?
> > > Is there a plan to remove them?
> > >
> >
> > The testsuites are common and there is no driver specific test.
> > The test command is different for each of the PMD,
> > that is why it is registered for each PMD.
> > For Raw data path APIs, all of the testsuite is run with a global flag set.
> > Currently only 3 PMDs support raw APIs, we can get rid of this global flag in
> future if more
> > PMDs start supporting these APIs.
> 
> No there is something wrong.
> It shows that it is not generic enough for any app.
> What is missing to make the same calls no matter the driver?
> Do we need to add some capability flags?

Capability flags are there for raw data path APIs but the PMD can support both APIs.
And we need to test both data paths.
So for this we have a global variable to enable raw data path and we register a new
Command for the PMD and enable that global flag while doing that.
The tests, however have the capability flags checks in place but we decide to enable 
Raw APIs only when the PMD support that and that global flag is set.
I hope it is clear now.