[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] crypto/aesni_mb: add new option to select SIMD mode

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-12-02 09:46, Declan Doherty:
> Add new initialisation option to the aesni_mb_pmd to allow the user to specify
> which set of SIMD functions to load from the AESNI Multi-Buffer Crypto for IPsec
> library.

Why let user choose? Isn't the most recent the better?

This PMD and other software crypto PMDs could (should?) override the CFLAGS
like rte_acl do, in order to be able to use recent SIMD functions even if it
was globally disabled by the compilation target.
See my comment in the rte_memset thread.