X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fcryptodevs%2Faesni_mb.rst;h=3f49246615c2230d401fca4c313f4a83bf63c631;hb=8082845f8aea8407a3741783951f182a48f2855f;hp=b47cb6a4f260b681d8946239b41d3d1100953ae9;hpb=21c0a80e11bbf3405c849fc68a794a08ce1a732c;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst index b47cb6a4f2..3f49246615 100644 --- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst +++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .. BSD LICENSE - Copyright(c) 2015 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. + Copyright(c) 2015-2017 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. -AESN-NI Multi Buffer Crytpo Poll Mode Driver +AESN-NI Multi Buffer Crypto Poll Mode Driver ============================================ @@ -51,33 +51,54 @@ Cipher algorithms: * RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES128_CTR * RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES192_CTR * RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES256_CTR +* RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES_DOCSISBPI Hash algorithms: +* RTE_CRYPTO_HASH_MD5_HMAC * RTE_CRYPTO_HASH_SHA1_HMAC +* RTE_CRYPTO_HASH_SHA224_HMAC * RTE_CRYPTO_HASH_SHA256_HMAC +* RTE_CRYPTO_HASH_SHA384_HMAC * RTE_CRYPTO_HASH_SHA512_HMAC +* RTE_CRYPTO_HASH_AES_XCBC_HMAC Limitations ----------- * Chained mbufs are not supported. -* 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). + Installation ------------ -To build DPDK with the AESNI_MB_PMD the user is required to download the mult- -buffer library from `here `_ +To build DPDK with the AESNI_MB_PMD the user is required to download the multi-buffer +library from `here `_ and compile it on their user system before building DPDK. +The latest version of the library supported by this PMD is v0.46, which +can be downloaded in ``_. .. code-block:: console make +As a reference, the following table shows a mapping between the past DPDK versions +and the Multi-Buffer library version supported by them: + +.. _table_aesni_mb_versions: + +.. table:: DPDK and Multi-Buffer library version compatibility + + ============= ============================ + DPDK version Multi-buffer library version + ============= ============================ + 2.2 - 16.11 0.43 - 0.44 + 17.02 0.44 + 17.05+ 0.45+ + ============= ============================ + + Initialization -------------- @@ -92,9 +113,9 @@ In order to enable this virtual crypto PMD, user must: To use the PMD in an application, user must: -* Call rte_eal_vdev_init("crypto_aesni_mb") within the application. +* Call rte_vdev_init("crypto_aesni_mb") within the application. -* Use --vdev="crypto_aesni_mb" in the EAL options, which will call rte_eal_vdev_init() internally. +* Use --vdev="crypto_aesni_mb" in the EAL options, which will call rte_vdev_init() internally. The following parameters (all optional) can be provided in the previous two calls: @@ -109,4 +130,17 @@ Example: .. code-block:: console - ./l2fwd-crypto -c 40 -n 4 --vdev="crypto_aesni_mb,socket_id=1,max_nb_sessions=128" + ./l2fwd-crypto -l 6 -n 4 --vdev="crypto_aesni_mb,socket_id=1,max_nb_sessions=128" + +Extra notes +----------- + +For AES Counter mode (AES-CTR), the library supports two different sizes for Initialization +Vector (IV): + +* 12 bytes: used mainly for IPSec, as it requires 12 bytes from the user, which internally + are appended the counter block (4 bytes), which is set to 1 for the first block + (no padding required from the user) + +* 16 bytes: when passing 16 bytes, the library will take them and use the last 4 bytes + as the initial counter block for the first block.