Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] security: allow application to specify UDP ports to PMD

[Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>]

Hi Tejasree,

> > > Add UDP source and destination ports in ipsec_xform to allow
> > > application to specify ports to be used for IPsec UDP encapsulation as
> > > they are dynamically changed by NAT in between. Also adding an extra
> > > flag to indicate whether PMD needs to perform encapsulation header
> > > verification in case of inbound. In case of inline IPsec
> > > implementation, verification of outer IP headers and UDP encapsulation
> > > headers need to be handled in the PMD. For lookaside IPsec,
> > > application can optionally offload this to the PMD.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Tejasree Kondoj <ktejasree@marvell.com>
> > > ---
> >
> > I think we should add some usage of these newly added params
> > - either in app/test or in examples/ipsec-secgw
> 
> [Tejasree] You mean adding test case in either of the above apps or addition of
> PMD implementation also? Also is the proposal sounds fine?
> 
I would say both, so that the newly added parameters are tested.
I am ok with the proposal with a minor comment,

We can have udp_src_port and udp_dst_port directly into rte_security_ipsec_xform
Instead of adding a new struct rte_security_ipsec_udp_encapsulation.

Regards,
Akhil