X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Fcryptodevs%2Faesni_mb.rst;h=b3b937fe684a7419363bdeda0d514c97410061b1;hb=bad555df14626c84c3eee208fdff67c83b855a9d;hp=a0d13ca3824b67b79d2ea9245a4fbcf7930ba403;hpb=5d0bd2b31b511ea92133fb148333a467adaaed58;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst index a0d13ca382..b3b937fe68 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 @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ Cipher algorithms: * RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES128_CTR * RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES192_CTR * RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES256_CTR +* RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES_DOCSISBPI Hash algorithms: @@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ Limitations * Chained mbufs are 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 ------------ @@ -75,13 +76,29 @@ Installation 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 v0.44, which -can be downloaded in ``_. +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 -------------- @@ -96,9 +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: @@ -113,4 +130,18 @@ Example: .. code-block:: console - ./l2fwd-crypto -l 6 -n 4 --vdev="crypto_aesni_mb,socket_id=1,max_nb_sessions=128" + ./l2fwd-crypto -l 1 -n 4 --vdev="crypto_aesni_mb,socket_id=0,max_nb_sessions=128" \ + -- -p 1 --cdev SW --chain CIPHER_HASH --cipher_algo "aes-cbc" --auth_algo "sha1-hmac" + +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.