RE: [PATCH 0/2] IPsec on Arm

[Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>]

> Hi Ruifeng,
> 
> We have no technical issues with these patches based on their current
> functionality. However, it is worth pointing out that we are planning some
> changes to the Intel(r) Multi-Buffer Crypto for IPSec library which will require API
> changes in the future. These changes are, but not limited to, to consolidate
> some of the crypto PMDs into a single PMD, which will simplify the code and
> reduce future maintenance effort. When these changes are made, your library
> will need to be updated too in order to take advantage of the consolidation. We
> can provide further details of the changes that we're considering separately, so
> that you're not taken by surprise when these change occurs.
> 
> We also want you to know, for any change we will make to these PMDs, we do
> not guarantee it works on ARM platform. We advise you to do necessary
> testing/verification in necessary testing/verification to the future patches for
> the PMDs based on ipsec-mb on your platform.


> > This patch set integrates Arm port of ipsec_mb library.
> > ZUC and SNOW3g PMDs are available on Arm platform with this integration.
> >
> > This series depends on:
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-
> 3A__patches.dpdk.org_project_dpdk_patch_20220630154123.2565439-2D1-
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> > asekhar@marvell.com/
> >
> > Depends-on: patch-113578 ("crypto/ipsec_mb: enable support for arm64")
> >
> > Ruifeng Wang (2):
> >   crypto/ipsec_mb: remove redundant includes
> >   crypto/ipsec_mb: enable IPsec on Arm platform
> >
> >  app/test/test_cryptodev_hash_test_vectors.h  |  4 ++++
> >  doc/guides/cryptodevs/snow3g.rst             | 14 ++++++++++----
> >  doc/guides/cryptodevs/zuc.rst                | 14 ++++++++++----
> >  drivers/common/qat/meson.build               |  6 +++++-
> >  drivers/crypto/ipsec_mb/ipsec_mb_private.c   |  6 ++++++
> >  drivers/crypto/ipsec_mb/ipsec_mb_private.h   |  4 ++++
> >  drivers/crypto/ipsec_mb/meson.build          |  6 +++++-
> >  drivers/crypto/ipsec_mb/pmd_aesni_gcm_priv.h |  2 --
> >  drivers/crypto/ipsec_mb/pmd_aesni_mb_priv.h  |  2 --
> >  drivers/crypto/qat/qat_sym_session.c         |  4 ++++
> >  10 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
Series applied to dpdk-next-crypto

Thanks