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From: "De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] crypto/qat: refactor to support
	multiple service
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:41:20 +0000
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Hi Fiona,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trahe, Fiona
> Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 7:52 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org; De Lara Guarch, Pablo <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
> Cc: Trahe, Fiona <fiona.trahe@intel.com>; Jozwiak, TomaszX
> <tomaszx.jozwiak@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 00/30] crypto/qat: refactor to support multiple service
>=20
> The QAT crypto PMD was peppered with references to rte_cryptodev artefact=
s.
> Also the pci device it presented to the API layer was entirely owned by t=
he one
> cryptodev device instance created by the probe.
> This patchset refactors the PMD so one pci device can present out multipl=
e
> different device instances to implement different APIs, specifically cryp=
todev
> and compressdev instances.
> The code is refactored into
>  - common code which handles the pci device discovery, configuration,
>    queue-pair setup, stats gathering and data-path enqueue and dequeue.
>  - service-specific code for symmetric crypto, which is a thin layer
>    implementing the cryptodev API and using the common code.
>  - place-holder files for service-specific code to support asymmetric
>    crypto and compression services in future.

Since these patches arrived late in the merge window, I will defer them to =
18.08,
targeting an early merge in that release.

Still, we can merge the first one, as we are trying to move all license hea=
ders to the
new SPDX format.

Thanks,
Pablo