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31 Cryptodev Scheduler Poll Mode Driver Library
32 ============================================
34 Scheduler PMD is a software crypto PMD, which has the capabilities of
35 attaching hardware and/or software cryptodevs, and distributes ingress
36 crypto ops among them in a certain manner.
38 .. figure:: img/scheduler-overview.*
40 Cryptodev Scheduler Overview
43 The Cryptodev Scheduler PMD library (**librte_pmd_crypto_scheduler**) acts as
44 a software crypto PMD and shares the same API provided by librte_cryptodev.
45 The PMD supports attaching multiple crypto PMDs, software or hardware, as
46 slaves, and distributes the crypto workload to them with certain behavior.
47 The behaviors are categorizes as different "modes". Basically, a scheduling
48 mode defines certain actions for scheduling crypto ops to its slaves.
50 The librte_pmd_crypto_scheduler library exports a C API which provides an API
51 for attaching/detaching slaves, set/get scheduling modes, and enable/disable
52 crypto ops reordering.
57 * Sessionless crypto operation is not supported
58 * OOP crypto operation is not supported when the crypto op reordering feature
65 To build DPDK with CRYTPO_SCHEDULER_PMD the user is required to set
66 CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_CRYPTO_SCHEDULER=y in config/common_base, and
73 To use the PMD in an application, user must:
75 * Call rte_vdev_init("crypto_scheduler") within the application.
77 * Use --vdev="crypto_scheduler" in the EAL options, which will call
78 rte_vdev_init() internally.
81 The following parameters (all optional) can be provided in the previous
84 * socket_id: Specify the socket where the memory for the device is going
85 to be allocated (by default, socket_id will be the socket where the core
86 that is creating the PMD is running on).
88 * max_nb_sessions: Specify the maximum number of sessions that can be
89 created. This value may be overwritten internally if there are too
90 many devices are attached.
92 * slave: If a cryptodev has been initialized with specific name, it can be
93 attached to the scheduler using this parameter, simply filling the name
94 here. Multiple cryptodevs can be attached initially by presenting this
95 parameter multiple times.
97 * mode: Specify the scheduling mode of the PMD. The supported scheduling
98 mode parameter values are specified in the "Cryptodev Scheduler Modes
101 * ordering: Specify the status of the crypto operations ordering feature.
102 The value of this parameter can be "enable" or "disable". This feature
103 is disabled by default.
107 .. code-block:: console
109 ... --vdev "crypto_aesni_mb0,name=aesni_mb_1" --vdev "crypto_aesni_mb1,name=aesni_mb_2" --vdev "crypto_scheduler,slave=aesni_mb_1,slave=aesni_mb_2" ...
113 * The scheduler cryptodev cannot be started unless the scheduling mode
114 is set and at least one slave is attached. Also, to configure the
115 scheduler in the run-time, like attach/detach slave(s), change
116 scheduling mode, or enable/disable crypto op ordering, one should stop
117 the scheduler first, otherwise an error will be returned.
119 * The crypto op reordering feature requires using the userdata field of
120 every mbuf to be processed to store temporary data. By the end of
121 processing, the field is set to pointing to NULL, any previously
122 stored value of this field will be lost.
125 Cryptodev Scheduler Modes Overview
126 ----------------------------------
128 Currently the Crypto Scheduler PMD library supports following modes of
131 * **CDEV_SCHED_MODE_ROUNDROBIN:**
133 *Initialization mode parameter*: **round-robin**
135 Round-robin mode, which distributes the enqueued burst of crypto ops
136 among its slaves in a round-robin manner. This mode may help to fill
137 the throughput gap between the physical core and the existing cryptodevs
138 to increase the overall performance.
140 * **CDEV_SCHED_MODE_PKT_SIZE_DISTR:**
142 *Initialization mode parameter*: **packet-size-distr**
144 Packet-size based distribution mode, which works with 2 slaves, the primary
145 slave and the secondary slave, and distributes the enqueued crypto
146 operations to them based on their data lengths. A crypto operation will be
147 distributed to the primary slave if its data length is equal to or bigger
148 than the designated threshold, otherwise it will be handled by the secondary
151 A typical usecase in this mode is with the QAT cryptodev as the primary and
152 a software cryptodev as the secondary slave. This may help applications to
153 process additional crypto workload than what the QAT cryptodev can handle on
154 its own, by making use of the available CPU cycles to deal with smaller
157 The threshold is set to 128 bytes by default. It can be updated by calling
158 function **rte_cryptodev_scheduler_option_set**. The parameter of
159 **option_type** must be **CDEV_SCHED_OPTION_THRESHOLD** and **option** should
160 point to a rte_cryptodev_scheduler_threshold_option structure filled with
161 appropriate threshold value. Please NOTE this threshold has be a power-of-2
164 * **CDEV_SCHED_MODE_FAILOVER:**
166 *Initialization mode parameter*: **fail-over**
168 Fail-over mode, which works with 2 slaves, the primary slave and the
169 secondary slave. In this mode, the scheduler will enqueue the incoming
170 crypto operation burst to the primary slave. When one or more crypto
171 operations fail to be enqueued, then they will be enqueued to the secondary
174 * **CDEV_SCHED_MODE_MULTICORE:**
176 *Initialization mode parameter*: **multi-core**
178 Multi-core mode, which distributes the workload with several (up to eight)
179 worker cores. The enqueued bursts are distributed among the worker cores in a
180 round-robin manner. If scheduler cannot enqueue entire burst to the same worker,
181 it will enqueue the remaining operations to the next available worker.
182 For pure small packet size (64 bytes) traffic however the multi-core mode is not
183 an optimal solution, as it doesn't give significant per-core performance improvement.
184 For mixed traffic (IMIX) the optimal number of worker cores is around 2-3.
185 For large packets (1.5 Kbytes) scheduler shows linear scaling in performance
187 Each worker uses its own slave cryptodev. Only software cryptodevs
188 are supported. Only the same type of cryptodevs should be used concurrently.
190 The multi-core mode uses one extra parameter:
192 * corelist: Semicolon-separated list of logical cores to be used as workers.
193 The number of worker cores should be equal to the number of slave cryptodevs.
194 These cores should be present in EAL core list parameter and
195 should not be used by the application or any other process.
198 ... --vdev "crypto_aesni_mb1,name=aesni_mb_1" --vdev "crypto_aesni_mb_pmd2,name=aesni_mb_2" \
199 --vdev "crypto_scheduler,slave=aesni_mb_1,slave=aesni_mb_2,mode=multi-core,corelist=23;24" ...