1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause 2 Copyright(c) 2021 Intel Corporation. 3 4Chacha20-poly1305 Crypto Poll Mode Driver 5========================================= 6 7The Chacha20-poly1305 PMD provides poll mode crypto driver support for 8utilizing `Intel IPSec Multi-buffer library <https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb>`_. 9 10Features 11-------- 12 13Chacha20-poly1305 PMD has support for: 14 15AEAD algorithms: 16 17* RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_CHACHA20_POLY1305 18 19Chaha20_Poly1305 PMD vs AESNI MB PMD 20------------------------------------ 21 22AESNI MB PMD also supports CHACHA20-POLY1305 algorithms. 23It is recommended to use the AESNI MB PMD, 24which offers better performance on Intel processors, 25when single-segment buffers are used. 26Take a look at the PMD documentation (:doc:`aesni_mb`) for more information. 27 28Installation 29------------ 30 31To build DPDK with the Chacha20-poly1305 PMD the user is required to download 32the multi-buffer library from `here <https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb>`_ 33and compile it on their user system before building DPDK. 34The latest version of the library supported by this PMD is v1.5, which 35can be downloaded from `<https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb/archive/v1.5.zip>`_. 36 37After downloading the library, the user needs to unpack and compile it 38on their system before building DPDK: 39 40.. code-block:: console 41 42 make 43 make install 44 45The library requires NASM to be built. Depending on the library version, it might 46require a minimum NASM version (e.g. v0.54 requires at least NASM 2.14). 47 48NASM is packaged for different OS. However, on some OS the version is too old, 49so a manual installation is required. In that case, NASM can be downloaded from 50`NASM website <https://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/?C=M;O=D>`_. 51Once it is downloaded, extract it and follow these steps: 52 53.. code-block:: console 54 55 ./configure 56 make 57 make install 58 59As a reference, the following table shows a mapping between the past DPDK versions 60and the external crypto libraries supported by them: 61 62.. _table_chacha20_poly1305_versions: 63 64.. table:: DPDK and external crypto library version compatibility 65 66 ============= ================================ 67 DPDK version Crypto library version 68 ============= ================================ 69 21.11+ Multi-buffer library 1.0-1.5 70 ============= ================================ 71 72Initialization 73-------------- 74 75In order to enable this virtual crypto PMD, user must: 76 77* Build the multi buffer library (explained in Installation section). 78 79To use the PMD in an application, user must: 80 81* Call rte_vdev_init("crypto_chacha20_poly1305") within the application. 82 83* Use --vdev="crypto_chacha20_poly1305" in the EAL options, which will call 84 rte_vdev_init() internally. 85 86The following parameters (all optional) can be provided in the previous two calls: 87 88* socket_id: Specify the socket where the memory for the device is going to be allocated 89 (by default, socket_id will be the socket where the core that is creating the PMD is running on). 90 91* max_nb_queue_pairs: Specify the maximum number of queue pairs in the device (8 by default). 92 93* max_nb_sessions: Specify the maximum number of sessions that can be created (2048 by default). 94 95Example: 96 97.. code-block:: console 98 99 --vdev="crypto_chacha20_poly1305,socket_id=0,max_nb_sessions=128" 100