Thread (30 messages) 30 messages, 4 authors, 2018-07-10

Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] cryptodev: add min headroom and tailroom requirement

From: De Lara Guarch, Pablo <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-10 10:26:46

Hi Anoob,
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From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Anoob Joseph
Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 2:56 PM
To: Doherty, Declan <redacted>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo
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Cc: Anoob Joseph <redacted>; Akhil Goyal
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Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/3] cryptodev: add min headroom and tailroom
requirement

Enabling crypto devs to specify the minimum headroom and tailroom it expects
in the mbuf. For net PMDs, standard headroom has to be honoured by
applications, which is not strictly followed for crypto devs. This prevents crypto
devs from using free space in mbuf (available as
head/tailroom) for internal requirements in crypto operations. Addition of
head/tailroom requirement will help PMDs to communicate such requirements
to the application.

The availability and use of head/tailroom is an optimization if the hardware
supports use of head/tailroom for crypto-op info. For devices that do not
support using the head/tailroom, they can continue to operate without any
performance-drop.

Signed-off-by: Anoob Joseph <redacted>
---
v1:
* Removed deprecation notice
* Updated release note
* Renamed new fields to have 'mbuf' in the name
* Changed the type of new fields to uint16_t (instead of uint32_t)

 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_08.rst | 6 ++++++
 lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h   | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_08.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_08.rst
index 5bc23c5..fae0d26 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_08.rst
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ ABI Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================

+* cryptodev: Additional fields in rte_cryptodev_info.
+
+  Two new fields of type ``uint16_t`` added in ``rte_cryptodev_info``
+  structure: ``min_mbuf_headroom_req`` and ``min_mbuf_tailroom_req``.
+ These  parameters specify the recommended headroom and tailroom for
+ mbufs to be  processed by the PMD.
I think the "cryptodev scheduler PMD" needs changes to take these new parameters into consideration.
Scheduler_pmd_info_get should return the maximum number of these two fields on all the slaves
(like what's done with max number of sessions).

We need to close the subtree today, with all API changes done. Will you have time to make this change today?

Thanks!
Pablo
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