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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce SA config option struct changes
@ 2021-06-30 11:20 Archana Muniganti
  2021-07-31 17:53 ` Akhil Goyal
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Archana Muniganti @ 2021-06-30 11:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gakhil, roy.fan.zhang, hemant.agrawal, konstantin.ananyev
  Cc: Archana Muniganti, anoobj, jerinj, dev

Proposing following two new fields for IPsec inner checksum
configuration in the structure ``rte_security_ipsec_sa_options``.
uint32_t ip_csum_enable : 1;
uint32_t l4_csum_enable : 1;

With these config options, per SA, application can specify if
the inner checksum(compute/verify) to be offloaded to the
security device.

https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-June/212977.html

Signed-off-by: Archana Muniganti <marchana@marvell.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 9584d6bfd7..da65ae68be 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
   in "rte_sched.h". These changes are aligned to improvements suggested in the
   RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html.
 
+* security: The IPsec SA config options structure ``struct rte_security_ipsec_sa_options``
+  will be updated with two new fields to support IPsec inner checksum in case
+  of protocol offload.
+
 * metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
   in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.
 
-- 
2.22.0


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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce SA config option struct changes
@ 2021-07-31 17:44 Akhil Goyal
  2021-08-02  9:43 ` Anoob Joseph
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Akhil Goyal @ 2021-07-31 17:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev
  Cc: anoobj, radu.nicolau, declan.doherty, abhijits.sinha,
	daniel.m.buckley, marchana, ktejasree, hemant.agrawal, matan,
	konstantin.ananyev, Akhil Goyal

From: Archana Muniganti <marchana@marvell.com>

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>
---
Proposal for changes are floated as per below links.
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-June/212977.html
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-July/213484.html
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-July/214521.html

Cc: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>

 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 6a35c7649a..96192b4a41 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -151,3 +151,7 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * security: The functions ``rte_security_set_pkt_metadata`` and
   ``rte_security_get_userdata`` will be made inline functions and additional
   flags will be added in structure ``rte_security_ctx`` in DPDK 21.11.
+
+* 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.
-- 
2.25.1


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