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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce changes in security session struct
@ 2021-08-03 12:23 Akhil Goyal
  2021-08-03 12:36 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Akhil Goyal @ 2021-08-03 12:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev
  Cc: anoobj, radu.nicolau, declan.doherty, hemant.agrawal, matan,
	konstantin.ananyev, thomas, roy.fan.zhang, asomalap,
	ruifeng.wang, ajit.khaparde, pablo.de.lara.guarch, fiona.trahe,
	adwivedi, michaelsh, rnagadheeraj, jianjay.zhou, Akhil Goyal

The structure rte_security_session is not directly used
by the application. The application just need an opaque
pointer to attached to the mbuf or rte_crypto_op while
enqueue. Hence, it can be hidden inside the library
and would prevent unnecessary indirection to the priv
session data in fastpath.

Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@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 c540c90f8e..8da1c2648c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -159,3 +159,7 @@ 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: Hide stucture ``rte_security_session`` and expose an opaque
+  pointer for the private data to the application which can be attached
+  to the packet while enqueuing.
-- 
2.25.1


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