[PATCH v6 0/3] ethdev: introduce IP reassembly offload

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 2/8/2022 10:20 PM, Akhil Goyal wrote:
> As discussed in the RFC[1] sent in 21.11, a new offload is
> introduced in ethdev for IP reassembly.
> 
> This patchset add the IP reassembly RX offload.
> Currently, the offload is tested along with inline IPsec processing.
> It can also be updated as a standalone offload without IPsec, if there
> are some hardware available to test it.
> The patchset is tested on cnxk platform. The driver implementation
> and a test app are added as separate patchsets.[2][3]
> 
> [1]: http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210823100259.1619886-1-gakhil@marvell.com/
> [2]: APP: http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=21284
> [3]: PMD: http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=21285
> Newer versions of app and PMD will be sent once library changes are
> acked.
> 
> Changes in v6:
> - fix warnings.
> 
> Changes in v5:
> - updated Doxygen comments.(Ferruh)
> - Added release notes.
> - updated libabigail suppress rules.(David)
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - removed rte_eth_dev_info update for capability (Ferruh)
> - removed Rx offload flag (Ferruh)
> - added capability_get() (Ferruh)
> - moved dynfield and dynflag namedefines in rte_mbuf_dyn.h (Ferruh)
> 
> changes in v3:
> - incorporated comments from Andrew and Stephen Hemminger
> 
> changes in v2:
> - added abi ignore exceptions for modifications in reserved fields.
>    Added a crude way to subside the rte_security and rte_ipsec ABI issue.
>    Please suggest a better way.
> - incorporated Konstantin's comment for extra checks in new API
>    introduced.
> - converted static mbuf ol_flag to mbuf dynflag (Konstantin)
> - added a get API for reassembly configuration (Konstantin)
> - Fixed checkpatch issues.
> - Dynfield is NOT split into 2 parts as it would cause an extra fetch in
>    case of IP reassembly failure.
> - Application patches are split into a separate series.
> 
> 
> Akhil Goyal (3):
>    ethdev: introduce IP reassembly offload
>    ethdev: add mbuf dynfield for incomplete IP reassembly
>    security: add IPsec option for IP reassembly
> 

Series applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.