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[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / cryptodevs / aesni_gcm.rst

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 ..  BSD LICENSE
-    Copyright(c) 2016 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
+    Copyright(c) 2016-2017 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
 
     Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
     modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
@@ -28,39 +28,93 @@
     OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 AES-NI GCM Crypto Poll Mode Driver
-============================================
+==================================
 
 
 The AES-NI GCM PMD (**librte_pmd_aesni_gcm**) provides poll mode crypto driver
 support for utilizing Intel multi buffer library (see AES-NI Multi-buffer PMD documentation
 to learn more about it, including installation).
 
-The AES-NI GCM PMD has current only been tested on Fedora 21 64-bit with gcc.
-
 Features
 --------
 
 AESNI GCM PMD has support for:
 
-Cipher algorithms:
+Authentication algorithms:
+
+* RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_AES_GMAC
 
-* RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES_GCM
+AEAD algorithms:
 
-Authentication algorithms:
+* RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_AES_GCM
 
-* RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_AES_GCM
 
 Limitations
 -----------
 
-* Chained mbufs are not supported.
-* Hash only is not supported.
+* Chained mbufs are supported but only out-of-place (destination mbuf must be contiguous).
 * Cipher only is not supported.
-* Only in-place is currently supported (destination address is the same as source address).
-* Only supports session-oriented API implementation (session-less APIs are not supported).
-*  Not performance tuned.
-
-The environmental variable
-AESNI_MULTI_BUFFER_LIB_PATH must be exported with the path where you extracted
-and built the multi buffer library and finally set
-CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_AESNI_GCM=y in config/common_base.
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+To build DPDK with the AESNI_GCM_PMD the user is required to download the multi-buffer
+library from `here <https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb>`_
+and compile it on their user system before building DPDK.
+The latest version of the library supported by this PMD is v0.47, which
+can be downloaded in `<https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb/archive/v0.47.zip>`_.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+       make
+
+As a reference, the following table shows a mapping between the past DPDK versions
+and the external crypto libraries supported by them:
+
+.. _table_aesni_gcm_versions:
+
+.. table:: DPDK and external crypto library version compatibility
+
+   =============  ================================
+   DPDK version   Crypto library version
+   =============  ================================
+   16.04 - 16.11  Multi-buffer library 0.43 - 0.44
+   17.02 - 17.05  ISA-L Crypto v2.18
+   17.08+         Multi-buffer library 0.46+
+   =============  ================================
+
+
+Initialization
+--------------
+
+In order to enable this virtual crypto PMD, user must:
+
+* Export the environmental variable AESNI_MULTI_BUFFER_LIB_PATH with the path where
+  the library was extracted.
+
+* Build the multi buffer library (explained in Installation section).
+
+* Set CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_AESNI_GCM=y in config/common_base.
+
+To use the PMD in an application, user must:
+
+* Call rte_vdev_init("crypto_aesni_gcm") within the application.
+
+* Use --vdev="crypto_aesni_gcm" in the EAL options, which will call rte_vdev_init() internally.
+
+The following parameters (all optional) can be provided in the previous two calls:
+
+* socket_id: Specify the socket where the memory for the device is going to be allocated
+  (by default, socket_id will be the socket where the core that is creating the PMD is running on).
+
+* max_nb_queue_pairs: Specify the maximum number of queue pairs in the device (8 by default).
+
+* max_nb_sessions: Specify the maximum number of sessions that can be created (2048 by default).
+
+Example:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    ./l2fwd-crypto -l 1 -n 4 --vdev="crypto_aesni_gcm,socket_id=0,max_nb_sessions=128" \
+    -- -p 1 --cdev SW --chain AEAD --aead_algo "aes-gcm"