From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 06/10] mbuf_offload: library to support attaching offloads to a mbuf Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:46:52 +0100 Message-ID: <57931918.3lc4AAkY5P@xps13> References: <1447176763-19303-1-git-send-email-declan.doherty@intel.com> <56530FB1.8000106@6wind.com> <2891112.tEs81Nm6rs@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Declan Doherty Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f46.google.com (mail-wm0-f46.google.com [74.125.82.46]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB608E81 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:48:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by wmvv187 with SMTP id v187so164434510wmv.1 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2015 06:48:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <2891112.tEs81Nm6rs@xps13> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2015-11-23 15:17, Thomas Monjalon: > Yes, it is a totally new work and it probably needs more time to have a > design working well for most of use cases. > As I already discussed with Olivier, I think it should be considered as > experimental. It means we can try it but do not consider it as a stable > API. So the deprecation process would not apply until the experimental > flag is removed. If nobody complains, I'll apply this v7 and will send a patch to add some experimental markers. > For the release 2.2, it would be better to remove the crypto dependency > in mbuf. Do you think it is possible? Sorry, forget it, the dependency is in mbuf_offload.