xref: /dpdk/doc/guides/cryptodevs/virtio.rst (revision f8dbaebbf1c9efcbb2e2354b341ed62175466a57)
1..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2    Copyright(c) 2018 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
3
4Virtio Crypto Poll Mode Driver
5==============================
6
7The virtio crypto PMD provides poll mode driver support for the virtio crypto
8device.
9
10Features
11--------
12
13The virtio crypto PMD has support for:
14
15Cipher algorithms:
16
17* ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_AES_CBC``
18
19Hash algorithms:
20
21* ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_SHA1_HMAC``
22
23Limitations
24-----------
25
26*  Only supports the session-oriented API implementation (session-less APIs are
27   not supported).
28*  Only supports modern mode since virtio crypto conforms to virtio-1.0.
29*  Only has two types of queues: data queue and control queue. These two queues
30   only support indirect buffers to communication with the virtio backend.
31*  Only supports AES_CBC cipher only algorithm and AES_CBC with HMAC_SHA1
32   chaining algorithm since the vhost crypto backend only these algorithms
33   are supported.
34*  Does not support Link State interrupt.
35*  Does not support runtime configuration.
36
37Virtio crypto PMD Rx/Tx Callbacks
38---------------------------------
39
40Rx callbacks:
41
42* ``virtio_crypto_pkt_rx_burst``
43
44Tx callbacks:
45
46* ``virtio_crypto_pkt_tx_burst``
47
48Installation
49------------
50
51Quick instructions are as follows:
52
53Firstly run DPDK vhost crypto sample as a server side and build QEMU with
54vhost crypto enabled.
55QEMU can then be started using the following parameters:
56
57.. code-block:: console
58
59    qemu-system-x86_64 \
60    [...] \
61        -chardev socket,id=charcrypto0,path=/path/to/your/socket \
62        -object cryptodev-vhost-user,id=cryptodev0,chardev=charcrypto0 \
63        -device virtio-crypto-pci,id=crypto0,cryptodev=cryptodev0
64    [...]
65
66Secondly bind the uio_pci_generic driver for the virtio-crypto device.
67For example, 0000:00:04.0 is the domain, bus, device and function
68number of the virtio-crypto device:
69
70.. code-block:: console
71
72    modprobe uio_pci_generic
73    echo -n 0000:00:04.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/virtio-pci/unbind
74    echo "1af4 1054" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/uio_pci_generic/new_id
75
76Finally the front-end virtio crypto PMD can be installed.
77
78Tests
79-----
80
81The unit test cases can be tested as below:
82
83.. code-block:: console
84
85    reserve enough huge pages
86    cd to <build_dir>
87    meson test cryptodev_virtio_autotest
88
89The performance can be tested as below:
90
91.. code-block:: console
92
93    reserve enough huge pages
94    cd to <build_dir>
95
96    ./app/dpdk-test-crypto-perf -l 0,1 -- --devtype crypto_virtio \
97        --ptest throughput --optype cipher-then-auth --cipher-algo aes-cbc \
98        --cipher-op encrypt --cipher-key-sz 16 --auth-algo sha1-hmac \
99        --auth-op generate --auth-key-sz 64 --digest-sz 12 \
100        --total-ops 100000000 --burst-sz 64 --buffer-sz 2048
101