From: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
To: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>
Cc: "jerinj@marvell.com" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
"bruce.richardson@intel.com" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>,
Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)" <Gavin.Hu@arm.com>,
dpdk-on-arm <dpdk-on-arm@arm.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH 5/6] build: add option for armv8 crypto extension
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:28:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ACFB177-32B1-4AF9-BC60-DE1EBB4EC9C7@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VE1PR08MB514978C5F96EC8FA0934C79F982B0@VE1PR08MB5149.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>
On Apr 15, 2019, at 1:13 PM, Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com> wrote:
>>>> Subject: [EXT] [PATCH 5/6] build: add option for armv8 crypto
>>>> extension
>>>>
>>>> CONFIG_RTE_MACHINE="armv8a"
>>>> +CONFIG_RTE_ENABLE_ARMV8_CRYPTO=y
>>>
>>> This approach is not scalable. Even, it is not good for BlueField as
>>> you you need to maintain two images.
>>>
>>> Unlike other CPU flags, arm64's crypto cpu flag is really _optional_.
>>> Access to crypto instructions is always at under runtime check.
>>> See the following in rte_armv8_pmd.c
>>>
>>>
>>> /* Check CPU for support for AES instruction set */
>>> if (!rte_cpu_get_flag_enabled(RTE_CPUFLAG_AES)) {
>>> ARMV8_CRYPTO_LOG_ERR(
>>> "AES instructions not supported by CPU");
>>> return -EFAULT;
>>> }
>>>
>>> /* Check CPU for support for SHA instruction set */
>>> if (!rte_cpu_get_flag_enabled(RTE_CPUFLAG_SHA1) ||
>>> !rte_cpu_get_flag_enabled(RTE_CPUFLAG_SHA2)) {
>>> ARMV8_CRYPTO_LOG_ERR(
>>> "SHA1/SHA2 instructions not supported by CPU");
>>> return -EFAULT;
>>> }
>>>
>>> So In order to avoid one more config flags specific to armv8 in meson
>>> and makefile build infra And avoid the need for 6/6 patch. IMO, #
>>> Introduce optional CPU flag scheme in eal. Treat armv8 crypto as
>>> optional flag # Skip the eal init check for optional flag.
>>>
>>> Do you see any issues with that approach?
>>
>> I also thought about that approach and that was my number 1 priority.
>> But, I had one question came to my mind. Maybe, arm people can confirm
>> it. Is it 100% guaranteed that compiler never makes use of any of crypto
>> instructions even if there's no specific asm/intrinsic code? The crypto
>> extension has aes, pmull,
>> sha1 and sha2. In case of rte_memcpy() for x86, for example, compiler may
>> optimize code using avx512f instructions even though it is written
>> specifically with avx2 intrinsics (__mm256_*) unless avx512f is disabled.
>>
>> If a complier expert in arm (or anyone else) confirm it is completely
>> **optional**, then I'd love to take that approach for sure.
>>
>> Copied dpdk-on-arm ML.
>>
> I do not know the answer, will have to check with the compiler team. I will get back on this.
Any update yet?
Thanks
Yongseok
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-17 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-12 23:24 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] build: fix build for arm64 Yongseok Koh
2019-04-12 23:24 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-12 23:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/6] meson: disable octeontx for buggy compilers on arm64 Yongseok Koh
2019-04-12 23:24 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-13 5:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2019-04-13 5:52 ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2019-04-15 18:16 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-15 18:16 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-12 23:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/6] meson: change default cache line size for cortex-a72 Yongseok Koh
2019-04-12 23:24 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-13 6:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-13 6:43 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-15 4:35 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-15 4:35 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-15 13:40 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-15 13:40 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-15 20:40 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-15 20:40 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-15 20:44 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-15 20:44 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-12 23:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/6] net/mlx: fix library search in meson build Yongseok Koh
2019-04-12 23:24 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-15 9:19 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-15 9:19 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-15 19:48 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-15 19:48 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-15 10:12 ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-15 10:12 ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-15 19:48 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-15 19:48 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 9:25 ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-18 9:25 ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-18 10:14 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-18 10:14 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-18 11:25 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:25 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-12 23:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/6] meson: add Mellanox BlueField cross-compile config Yongseok Koh
2019-04-12 23:24 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-13 7:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-13 7:04 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-12 23:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/6] build: add option for armv8 crypto extension Yongseok Koh
2019-04-12 23:24 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-13 7:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-13 7:22 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-15 4:52 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-15 4:52 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-15 18:43 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-15 18:43 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-15 20:13 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-15 20:13 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-17 16:28 ` Yongseok Koh [this message]
2019-04-17 16:28 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-30 3:33 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-30 3:33 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-05-02 1:54 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-05-02 1:54 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-05-02 10:13 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-05-02 10:13 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-05-02 23:08 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-05-02 23:08 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-05-02 23:33 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-05-02 23:33 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-05-03 10:28 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-05-03 10:28 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-05-03 3:54 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-05-03 3:54 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-05-03 9:49 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-05-03 9:49 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-05-03 14:21 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-05-03 14:21 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-12 23:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/6] mk: disable armv8 crypto extension for Mellanox BlueField Yongseok Koh
2019-04-12 23:24 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-13 7:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH 0/6] build: fix build for arm64 Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-13 7:12 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-15 20:56 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-15 20:56 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-16 5:57 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-16 5:57 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-17 20:06 ` [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-17 20:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-17 20:24 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-17 20:24 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-17 22:14 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-17 22:14 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 1:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] meson: disable octeontx for buggy compilers on arm64 Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 1:47 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 1:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] meson: change default cache line size for armv8 Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 1:47 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 5:00 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-18 5:00 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-18 8:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Hemant Agrawal
2019-04-18 8:23 ` Hemant Agrawal
2019-04-18 11:32 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:32 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 1:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] net/mlx: fix library search in meson build Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 1:47 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 1:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] meson: add Mellanox BlueField cross-compile config Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 1:47 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 7:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH v2 1/4] meson: disable octeontx for buggy compilers on arm64 Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-18 7:21 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-04-18 10:41 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 10:41 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:04 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-18 11:04 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-18 11:10 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:10 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] drivers/event: " Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:49 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] meson: change default config for armv8 Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:49 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 14:25 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-18 14:25 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-04-18 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] net/mlx: fix library search in meson build Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:49 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 12:02 ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-18 12:02 ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-18 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] meson: add Mellanox BlueField cross-compile config Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 11:49 ` Yongseok Koh
2019-04-18 16:23 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-18 16:23 ` Thomas Monjalon
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