1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause 2 Copyright(c) 2016-2019 Intel Corporation. 3 4SNOW 3G Crypto Poll Mode Driver 5=============================== 6 7The SNOW3G PMD (**librte_crypto_snow3g**) provides poll mode crypto driver support for 8utilizing `Intel IPSec Multi-buffer library <https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb>`_ 9which implements F8 and F8 functions for SNOW 3G UEA2 cipher and UIA2 hash algorithms. 10 11Features 12-------- 13 14SNOW 3G PMD has support for: 15 16Cipher algorithm: 17 18* RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_SNOW3G_UEA2 19 20Authentication algorithm: 21 22* RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SNOW3G_UIA2 23 24Limitations 25----------- 26 27* Chained mbufs are not supported. 28* SNOW 3G (UIA2) supported only if hash offset field is byte-aligned. 29* In-place bit-level operations for SNOW 3G (UEA2) are not supported 30 (if length and/or offset of data to be ciphered is not byte-aligned). 31 32Installation 33------------ 34 35To build DPDK with the SNOW3G_PMD the user is required to download the multi-buffer 36library from `here <https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb>`_ 37and compile it on their user system before building DPDK. 38The latest version of the library supported by this PMD is v0.54, which 39can be downloaded from `<https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb/archive/v0.54.zip>`_. 40 41After downloading the library, the user needs to unpack and compile it 42on their system before building DPDK: 43 44.. code-block:: console 45 46 make 47 make install 48 49The library requires NASM to be built. Depending on the library version, it might 50require a minimum NASM version (e.g. v0.54 requires at least NASM 2.14). 51 52NASM is packaged for different OS. However, on some OS the version is too old, 53so a manual installation is required. In that case, NASM can be downloaded from 54`NASM website <https://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/?C=M;O=D>`_. 55Once it is downloaded, extract it and follow these steps: 56 57.. code-block:: console 58 59 ./configure 60 make 61 make install 62 63.. note:: 64 65 Compilation of the Multi-Buffer library is broken when GCC < 5.0, if library <= v0.53. 66 If a lower GCC version than 5.0, the workaround proposed by the following link 67 should be used: `<https://github.com/intel/intel-ipsec-mb/issues/40>`_. 68 69As a reference, the following table shows a mapping between the past DPDK versions 70and the external crypto libraries supported by them: 71 72.. _table_snow3g_versions: 73 74.. table:: DPDK and external crypto library version compatibility 75 76 ============= ================================ 77 DPDK version Crypto library version 78 ============= ================================ 79 16.04 - 19.11 LibSSO SNOW3G 80 20.02+ Multi-buffer library 0.53 - 0.54 81 ============= ================================ 82 83 84Initialization 85-------------- 86 87In order to enable this virtual crypto PMD, user must: 88 89* Build the multi buffer library (explained in Installation section). 90 91To use the PMD in an application, user must: 92 93* Call rte_vdev_init("crypto_snow3g") within the application. 94 95* Use --vdev="crypto_snow3g" in the EAL options, which will call rte_vdev_init() internally. 96 97The following parameters (all optional) can be provided in the previous two calls: 98 99* socket_id: Specify the socket where the memory for the device is going to be allocated 100 (by default, socket_id will be the socket where the core that is creating the PMD is running on). 101 102* max_nb_queue_pairs: Specify the maximum number of queue pairs in the device (8 by default). 103 104* max_nb_sessions: Specify the maximum number of sessions that can be created (2048 by default). 105 106Example: 107 108.. code-block:: console 109 110 ./dpdk-l2fwd-crypto -l 1 -n 4 --vdev="crypto_snow3g,socket_id=0,max_nb_sessions=128" \ 111 -- -p 1 --cdev SW --chain CIPHER_ONLY --cipher_algo "snow3g-uea2" 112