Hi Tech board members,

Could you please clarify the concern?
The latest patch (https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/82536/) supports both enqueue 
and dequeue callback functionality.

Thanks
Abhinandan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Akhil Goyal <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:59 PM
> To: Gujjar, Abhinandan S <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> Doherty, Declan <[email protected]>;
> [email protected]; Ananyev, Konstantin
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Cc: Vangati, Narender <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [v4 1/3] cryptodev: support enqueue callback functions
> 
> Hi Tech board members,
> 
> I have a doubt about the ABI breakage in below addition of field.
> Could you please comment.
> 
> >  /** The data structure associated with each crypto device. */  struct
> > rte_cryptodev {
> >     dequeue_pkt_burst_t dequeue_burst;
> > @@ -867,6 +922,10 @@ struct rte_cryptodev {
> >     __extension__
> >     uint8_t attached : 1;
> >     /**< Flag indicating the device is attached */
> > +
> > +   struct rte_cryptodev_enq_cb_rcu *enq_cbs;
> > +   /**< User application callback for pre enqueue processing */
> > +
> >  } __rte_cache_aligned;
> 
> Here rte_cryptodevs is defined in stable API list in map file which is a 
> pointer
> To all rte_cryptodev and the above change is changing the size of the 
> structure.
> IMO, it seems an ABI breakage, but not sure. So wanted to double check.
> Now if it is an ABI breakage, then can we allow it? There was no deprecation
> notice Prior to this release.
> 
> Also I think if we are allowing the above change, then we should also add
> another Field for deq_cbs also for post crypto processing in this patch only.
> 
> Regards,
> Akhil

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