Cc Declan and Pablo, the maintainers
09/03/2018 23:08, Luse, Paul E:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on an SPDK module that uses the DPDK cryptodev framework,
> initially I'm using the AESNI PMD and have a few questions. in the doc it
> says that only in-place is supported however I see code in
> set_mb_job_params() just after the comment "Mutable crypto operation
> parameters" it appears to support a separate src and dst m_buf so curious
> about that.
>
> For my use case (storage) I'm using external data buffers so I can't use that
> code anyways but I was able to make some minor changes and am able to pass in
> different src and dst m_bufs that point to my own data buffers (not in the
> packet) and it seems to be working fine.
>
> So my 2 questions are:
>
> (1) is the documented in-place limitation simply not correct?
>
> (2) would there be any upstream interest in supporting a patch that enables
> m_bufs using external data buffers for src and dst?
>
> Thanks!
> Paul
