Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK 2.2 roadmap

["O'Driscoll, Tim" <tim.o'driscoll@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 1:44 PM
> To: O'Driscoll, Tim
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK 2.2 roadmap
>
> 2015-09-09 12:56, O'Driscoll, Tim:
> > DCB for i40e &X550:  DCB support will be extended to the i40e and X550
> NICs.
>
> A patch for DCB on X550 is already applied but the release notes part
> was forgotten.
>
> > IPsec Sample App:  A sample application will be provided to show how
> the
> > cryptodev library can be used to implement IPsec. This will be based
> on
> > the NetBSD IPsec implementation.
>
> For each API, it is really interesting to have some unit tests and some
> examples to show how it should be used. However adding an IPsec stack
> looks
> to be beyond the need of an API example. It may be big and difficult to
> maintain when updating DPDK.
> Why not spawn a new project here: http://dpdk.org/browse/ ?

What we're planning is a sample application that shows how hardware and software crypto accelerators can be used to accelerate a typical workload, which happens to be IPsec. We plan to provide an RFC next week which will give further details on what's being proposed. We don't expect maintenance to be a problem, but we can discuss that further when the scope has been clarified.