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

diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_gcm.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_gcm.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_gcm.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_gcm.rst
@@ -32,10 +32,8 @@ 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.
+support for utilizing Intel ISA-L crypto library, which provides operation acceleration
+through the AES-NI instruction sets for AES-GCM authenticated cipher algorithm.
 
 Features
 --------
@@ -49,18 +47,48 @@ Cipher algorithms:
 Authentication algorithms:
 
 * RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_AES_GCM
+* RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_AES_GMAC
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+To build DPDK with the AESNI_GCM_PMD the user is required to install
+the ``libisal_crypto`` library in the build environment.
+For download and more details please visit `<https://github.com/01org/isa-l_crypto>`_.
+
+Initialization
+--------------
+
+In order to enable this virtual crypto PMD, user must:
+
+* Install the ISA-L crypto 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_eal_vdev_init("crypto_aesni_gcm") within the application.
+
+* Use --vdev="crypto_aesni_gcm" in the EAL options, which will call rte_eal_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 6 -n 4 --vdev="crypto_aesni_gcm,socket_id=1,max_nb_sessions=128"
 
 Limitations
 -----------
 
-* Chained mbufs are not supported.
+* Chained mbufs are supported but only out-of-place (destination mbuf must be contiguous).
 * Hash only is not supported.
 * 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.