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1..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2    Copyright(c) 2016-2019 Intel Corporation.
3
4ZUC Crypto Poll Mode Driver
5===========================
6
7The ZUC PMD (**librte_pmd_zuc**) provides poll mode crypto driver support for
8utilizing `Intel IPSec Multi-buffer library <https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb>`_
9which implements F8 and F9 functions for ZUC EEA3 cipher and EIA3 hash algorithms.
10
11Features
12--------
13
14ZUC PMD has support for:
15
16Cipher algorithm:
17
18* RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_ZUC_EEA3
19
20Authentication algorithm:
21
22* RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_ZUC_EIA3
23
24Limitations
25-----------
26
27* Chained mbufs are not supported.
28* ZUC (EIA3) supported only if hash offset field is byte-aligned.
29* ZUC (EEA3) supported only if cipher length, cipher offset fields are byte-aligned.
30
31
32Installation
33------------
34
35To build DPDK with the ZUC_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
49.. note::
50
51   Compilation of the Multi-Buffer library is broken when GCC < 5.0, if library <= v0.53.
52   If a lower GCC version than 5.0, the workaround proposed by the following link
53   should be used: `<https://github.com/intel/intel-ipsec-mb/issues/40>`_.
54
55As a reference, the following table shows a mapping between the past DPDK versions
56and the external crypto libraries supported by them:
57
58.. _table_zuc_versions:
59
60.. table:: DPDK and external crypto library version compatibility
61
62   =============  ================================
63   DPDK version   Crypto library version
64   =============  ================================
65   16.11 - 19.11  LibSSO ZUC
66   20.02+         Multi-buffer library 0.53 - 0.54
67   =============  ================================
68
69
70Initialization
71--------------
72
73In order to enable this virtual crypto PMD, user must:
74
75* Build the multi buffer library (explained in Installation section).
76
77* Build DPDK as follows:
78
79.. code-block:: console
80
81	make config T=x86_64-native-linux-gcc
82	sed -i 's,\(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_ZUC\)=n,\1=y,' build/.config
83	make
84
85To use the PMD in an application, user must:
86
87* Call rte_vdev_init("crypto_zuc") within the application.
88
89* Use --vdev="crypto_zuc" in the EAL options, which will call rte_vdev_init() internally.
90
91The following parameters (all optional) can be provided in the previous two calls:
92
93* socket_id: Specify the socket where the memory for the device is going to be allocated
94  (by default, socket_id will be the socket where the core that is creating the PMD is running on).
95
96* max_nb_queue_pairs: Specify the maximum number of queue pairs in the device (8 by default).
97
98* max_nb_sessions: Specify the maximum number of sessions that can be created (2048 by default).
99
100Example:
101
102.. code-block:: console
103
104    ./l2fwd-crypto -l 1 -n 4 --vdev="crypto_zuc,socket_id=0,max_nb_sessions=128" \
105    -- -p 1 --cdev SW --chain CIPHER_ONLY --cipher_algo "zuc-eea3"
106