[dpdk-dev] crypto drivers in the API

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Mon Feb 13 14:25:18 CET 2017


In the crypto API, the drivers are listed.
In my opinion, it is a wrong designed and these lists should be removed.
Do we need a deprecation notice to plan this removal in 17.05, while
working on bus abstraction?


lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h:

#define CRYPTODEV_NAME_NULL_PMD     crypto_null
/**< Null crypto PMD device name */
#define CRYPTODEV_NAME_AESNI_MB_PMD crypto_aesni_mb
/**< AES-NI Multi buffer PMD device name */
#define CRYPTODEV_NAME_AESNI_GCM_PMD    crypto_aesni_gcm
/**< AES-NI GCM PMD device name */
#define CRYPTODEV_NAME_OPENSSL_PMD  crypto_openssl
/**< Open SSL Crypto PMD device name */
#define CRYPTODEV_NAME_QAT_SYM_PMD  crypto_qat
/**< Intel QAT Symmetric Crypto PMD device name */
#define CRYPTODEV_NAME_SNOW3G_PMD   crypto_snow3g
/**< SNOW 3G PMD device name */
#define CRYPTODEV_NAME_KASUMI_PMD   crypto_kasumi
/**< KASUMI PMD device name */
#define CRYPTODEV_NAME_ZUC_PMD      crypto_zuc
/**< KASUMI PMD device name */
#define CRYPTODEV_NAME_ARMV8_PMD    crypto_armv8
/**< ARMv8 Crypto PMD device name */
#define CRYPTODEV_NAME_SCHEDULER_PMD    crypto_scheduler
/**< Scheduler Crypto PMD device name */

/** Crypto device type */
enum rte_cryptodev_type {
    RTE_CRYPTODEV_NULL_PMD = 1, /**< Null crypto PMD */
    RTE_CRYPTODEV_AESNI_GCM_PMD,    /**< AES-NI GCM PMD */
    RTE_CRYPTODEV_AESNI_MB_PMD, /**< AES-NI multi buffer PMD */
    RTE_CRYPTODEV_QAT_SYM_PMD,  /**< QAT PMD Symmetric Crypto */
    RTE_CRYPTODEV_SNOW3G_PMD,   /**< SNOW 3G PMD */
    RTE_CRYPTODEV_KASUMI_PMD,   /**< KASUMI PMD */
    RTE_CRYPTODEV_ZUC_PMD,      /**< ZUC PMD */
    RTE_CRYPTODEV_OPENSSL_PMD,    /**<  OpenSSL PMD */
    RTE_CRYPTODEV_ARMV8_PMD,    /**< ARMv8 crypto PMD */
    RTE_CRYPTODEV_SCHEDULER_PMD,    /**< Crypto Scheduler PMD */
};


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