[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/ixgbe: check if security capabilities are enabled by HW

Nicolau, Radu radu.nicolau at intel.com
Wed Jan 17 12:40:25 CET 2018



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ananyev, Konstantin
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 11:34 AM
> To: Nicolau, Radu <radu.nicolau at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>; Zhao, XinfengX
> <xinfengx.zhao at intel.com>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo
> <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] net/ixgbe: check if security capabilities are enabled by
> HW
> 
> Hi Radu,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nicolau, Radu
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 11:19 AM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Cc: Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>; Ananyev, Konstantin
> > <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>; Zhao, XinfengX
> > <xinfengx.zhao at intel.com>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo
> > <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>; Nicolau, Radu
> > <radu.nicolau at intel.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH] net/ixgbe: check if security capabilities are enabled
> > by HW
> >
> > Check if the security enable bits are not fused before setting offload
> > capabilities for security
> 
> In theory dev_info_get() - could be called at any stage of device
> configuration or even when RX/TX is active.
> Do you really want to assert SECRXCTRL at that moment?
> Probably better to do this only once at init time and then just use some
> stored value?
> Konstantin
> 

Yes, that's true. I will send a v2



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