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From: "De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
To: "Gujjar, Abhinandan S" <abhinandan.gujjar@intel.com>,
	Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>,
	"Doherty, Declan" <declan.doherty@intel.com>,
	"Jacob, Jerin" <Jerin.JacobKollanukkaran@cavium.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"Vangati, Narender" <narender.vangati@intel.com>,
	"Rao, Nikhil" <nikhil.rao@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] lib/cryptodev: add support to set session private data
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:46:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E115CCD9D858EF4F90C690B0DCB4D8976CC72D93@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5612CB344B05EE4F95FC5B729939F780706009F3@PGSMSX102.gar.corp.intel.com>

Hi Abhinandan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gujjar, Abhinandan S
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 6:35 AM
> To: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>; Doherty, Declan
> <declan.doherty@intel.com>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo
> <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>; Jacob, Jerin
> <Jerin.JacobKollanukkaran@cavium.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Vangati, Narender <narender.vangati@intel.com>; Rao,
> Nikhil <nikhil.rao@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] lib/cryptodev: add support to set session private
> data
> 
> Hi Akhil,
> 

...

> I guess, you are suggesting below changes:
> diff --git a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h
> b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h
> index 56958a6..057c39a 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h
> @@ -892,6 +892,8 @@ struct rte_cryptodev_data {
> 
>  /** Cryptodev symmetric crypto session */  struct
> rte_cryptodev_sym_session {
> +       uint16_t private_data_offset;
> +       /**< Private data offset */
>         __extension__ void *sess_private_data[0];
>         /**< Private session material */  }; I am ok with this.
> 
> Declan/Pablo,
> Is this ok? Do you see any impact on performance or anything else has to be
> considered?

This is breaking ABI, and since there is a zero length array, this latter has to be at the end of the structure.
Therefore, this is not a valid option unless ABI deprecation is announced and then it could be merged in the next release.

Pablo


  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-17  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-15 11:51 Abhinandan Gujjar
2018-01-15 12:18 ` Akhil Goyal
2018-01-16  6:09   ` Gujjar, Abhinandan S
2018-01-16  6:24     ` Akhil Goyal
2018-01-16  7:05       ` Gujjar, Abhinandan S
2018-01-16  7:26         ` Akhil Goyal
2018-01-16  9:03           ` Gujjar, Abhinandan S
2018-01-16  9:21             ` Akhil Goyal
2018-01-16 11:36               ` Gujjar, Abhinandan S
2018-01-16 12:00                 ` Akhil Goyal
2018-01-16 12:29                   ` Gujjar, Abhinandan S
2018-01-16 13:02                     ` Akhil Goyal
2018-01-17  6:35                       ` Gujjar, Abhinandan S
2018-01-17  9:46                         ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo [this message]
2018-01-17 10:05                           ` Gujjar, Abhinandan S
2018-01-17 10:52                             ` Akhil Goyal
2018-01-18  6:52                               ` Gujjar, Abhinandan S
2018-01-22  6:51                                 ` Gujjar, Abhinandan S

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