Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/6] cryptodev: replace mbuf scatter gather flag

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:43:57 -0700 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Akhil Goyal
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 7:30 AM
> To: De Lara Guarch, Pablo <[email protected]>; Doherty, Declan
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; Zhang, Roy Fan <[email protected]>;
> Trahe, Fiona <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/6] cryptodev: replace mbuf scatter gather 
> flag
> 
> Hi Pablo,
> On 6/9/2018 3:32 AM, Pablo de Lara wrote:
> > The current mbuf scatter gatter feature flag is too ambiguous, as it
> > is not clear if input and/or output buffers can be scatter gather
> > mbufs or not.
> >
> > Therefore, two new flags will replace this flag:
> > RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER_IN and
> > RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER_OUT.
> >
> There may be a case, SG supported in input buffer and we use in-place
> processing and driver may support that but may not support SG for out buffers 
> in
> case of OOP. How can we handle this type of case?

Agree. I will send a new version with more flags, so we can cover all scenarios.

Thanks for the feedback!
Pablo
























					Reply via email to