Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] Removes the x86 dependency on the QAT drivers

[Giovanni Cabiddu]

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 02:00:40PM +0100, Yoan Picchi wrote:
> >> From: Yoan Picchi <yoan.picchi@xxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> The QAT acceleration card can be very helpfull for some tasks like
> >> dealing with IPSEC but it is currently restricted to be used only on x86
> machine.
> >> Looking at the code we didn't see any reasons why those drivers might
> >> not work on other architectures. We've successfully built all of them
> >> on x86, arm64, arm32, mips64, powerpc64, riscv64 and sparc64.
> >>
> >> We also have tested the driver with an Intel Corporation C62x Chipset
> >> QuickAssist Technology (rev 04) PCIe card on an arm64 server. After
> >> the numa patch, it works with the AF_ALG crypto userland interface,
> >> allowing us to encrypt some data with cbc for instance. We've also
> >> successfully created some VF, bound them to DPDK, and used the card
> >> this way, thus showing some real life usecases of x86 do work on arm64
> too.
> >>
> >> Please let us know if we missed something that would warrants some
> >> further testing.
> >Thanks Yoan.
> >
> >Can you please confirm that you tested the driver on the platform you
> reported using a kernel with CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS not set and
> CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_EXTRA_TESTS=y and the self test >is passing?
> >You can check it by running
> >    $ cat /proc/crypto | grep -B 4 passed | grep -e "qat_\|qat-" | sort
> This should report:
> >    driver       : qat_aes_cbc
> >    driver       : qat_aes_cbc_hmac_sha1
> >    driver       : qat_aes_cbc_hmac_sha256
> >    driver       : qat_aes_cbc_hmac_sha512
> >    driver       : qat_aes_ctr
> >    driver       : qat_aes_xts
> >    driver       : qat-dh
> >    driver       : qat-rsa
> >
> >Note that if you are using the HEAD of cryptodev-2.6 you will have to
> either revert 8893d27ffcaf6ec6267038a177cb87bcde4dd3de or apply
> >https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-crypto/list/?series=639755 as
> the algorithms have been temporarily disabled.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >--
> >Giovanni
> 
> Hi Giovanni.
> 
> Thanks for the instructions, I did not know of this test.
> I rebuilt my kernel on arm64 with those parameter and I confirm I get the
> same output with
> $ cat /proc/crypto | grep -B 4 passed | grep -e "qat_\|qat-" | sort
Thats great. Thanks.

Is the platform where you ran the tests little or big endian?
If little endian, can you re-test on a big endian system?

Thanks,

-- 
Giovanni