[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/12] Add crypto PMD optimized for ARMv8

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 06:32:53PM -0800, zbigniew.bodek at caviumnetworks.com wrote:
> From: Zbigniew Bodek <zbigniew.bodek at caviumnetworks.com>
> 
> Introduce crypto poll mode driver using ARMv8
> cryptographic extensions. This PMD is optimized
> to provide performance boost for chained
> crypto operations processing, such as:
> * encryption + HMAC generation
> * decryption + HMAC validation.
> In particular, cipher only or hash only
> operations are not provided. 
> Performance gain can be observed in tests
> against OpenSSL PMD which also uses ARM
> crypto extensions for packets processing.
> 
Hi,

great to see more crypto drivers coming into DPDK, thanks.

Question: do you know if this code would have any export compliance
implications for DPDK - or for those repackaging DPDK? Up till now, all
the crypto code used by DPDK was actually packaged in separate libraries
that were re-used, meaning that DPDK didn't contain any crypto
algorithms itself.

Regards,
/Bruce