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Commit 204369e7 authored by Jianbo Liu's avatar Jianbo Liu Committed by Saeed Mahameed
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net/mlx5: Add new APIs for fast update encryption key



New APIs are added to support fast update DEKs. As a pool is created
for each key purpose (type), one pair of pool APIs to get/put pool.
Anotehr pair of DEKs APIs is to get DEK object from pool and update it
with user key, or free it back to the pool. As The bulk allocation
and destruction will be supported in later patches, old implementation
is used here.

To support these APIs, pool and dek structs are defined first. Only
small number of fields are stored in them. For example, key_purpose
and refcnt in pool struct, DEK object id in dek struct. More fields
will be added to these structs in later patches, for example, the
different bulk lists for pool struct, the bulk pointer dek struct
belongs to, and a list_entry for the list in a pool, which is used to
save keys waiting for being freed while other thread is doing sync.

Besides the creation and destruction interfaces, new one is also added
to get obj id.

Currently these APIs are planned to used by TLS only.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJianbo Liu <jianbol@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
parent 94219254
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