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diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst index e812e957..ecb52a10 100644 --- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst +++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst @@ -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 ============================================ @@ -51,36 +51,53 @@ 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). -* Not performance tuned. Installation ------------ -To build DPDK with the AESNI_MB_PMD the user is required to download the mult- -buffer library from `here <https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/22972>`_ -and compile it on their user system before building DPDK. When building the -multi-buffer library it is necessary to have YASM package installed and also -requires the overriding of YASM path when building, as a path is hard coded in -the Makefile of the release package. +To build DPDK with the AESNI_MB_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 v0.45, which +can be downloaded in `<https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb/archive/v0.45.zip>`_. .. code-block:: console - make YASM=/usr/bin/yasm + 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 +130,4 @@ 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" |