[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: added inline crypto feature

Radu Nicolau radu.nicolau at intel.com
Wed Nov 8 15:31:44 CET 2017



On 11/8/2017 2:22 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 08/11/2017 14:26, Radu Nicolau:
>> --- a/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
>> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
>> @@ -900,6 +900,23 @@ Documentation describes performance values.
>>   See ``dpdk.org/doc/perf/*``.
>>   
>>   
>> +.. _nic_features_inline_crypto_doc:
> This anchor seems useless.
It is, I will remove it.
>
>> +
>> +Inline crypto
>> +-------------
>> +
>> +Supports inline crypto processing (eg. inline IPsec). See Security library for more details.
> As there are several types of inline crypto, don't you think it deserves
> several separate features?
We don't differentiate in the offload, net, mbuf APIs; it's all 
"security offload".
rte_security is the one that deals with different kinds of inline 
crypto, but in the NIC section it's all the same.


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