Currently the 3DES-CTR cipher context is initialised for every buffer,
setting the cipher implementation and key - even though for every
buffer in the session these values will be the same.

Change to initialising the cipher context once, before any buffers are
processed, instead.

Throughput performance uplift measurements for 3DES-CTR encrypt on
Ampere Altra Max platform:
1 worker lcore
|   buffer sz (B) |   prev (Gbps) |   optimised (Gbps) |   uplift |
|-----------------+---------------+--------------------+----------|
|              64 |          0.16 |               0.21 |    35.3% |
|             256 |          0.20 |               0.22 |     9.4% |
|            1024 |          0.22 |               0.23 |     2.3% |
|            2048 |          0.22 |               0.23 |     0.9% |
|            4096 |          0.22 |               0.23 |     0.9% |

8 worker lcores
|   buffer sz (B) |   prev (Gbps) |   optimised (Gbps) |   uplift |
|-----------------+---------------+--------------------+----------|
|              64 |          1.01 |               1.34 |    32.9% |
|             256 |          1.51 |               1.66 |     9.9% |
|            1024 |          1.72 |               1.77 |     2.6% |
|            2048 |          1.76 |               1.78 |     1.1% |
|            4096 |          1.79 |               1.80 |     0.6% |

Signed-off-by: Jack Bond-Preston <jack.bond-pres...@foss.arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Wathsala Vithanage <wathsala.vithan...@arm.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/openssl/rte_openssl_pmd.c | 21 +++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/openssl/rte_openssl_pmd.c 
b/drivers/crypto/openssl/rte_openssl_pmd.c
index ca7ed30ec4..175ffda2b9 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/openssl/rte_openssl_pmd.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/openssl/rte_openssl_pmd.c
@@ -521,6 +521,15 @@ openssl_set_session_cipher_parameters(struct 
openssl_session *sess,
                                sess->cipher.key.length,
                                sess->cipher.key.data) != 0)
                        return -EINVAL;
+
+
+               /* We use 3DES encryption also for decryption.
+                * IV is not important for 3DES ECB.
+                */
+               if (EVP_EncryptInit_ex(sess->cipher.ctx, EVP_des_ede3_ecb(),
+                               NULL, sess->cipher.key.data,  NULL) != 1)
+                       return -EINVAL;
+
                break;
 
        case RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_DES_CBC:
@@ -1136,8 +1145,7 @@ process_openssl_cipher_decrypt(struct rte_mbuf *mbuf_src, 
uint8_t *dst,
 /** Process cipher des 3 ctr encryption, decryption algorithm */
 static int
 process_openssl_cipher_des3ctr(struct rte_mbuf *mbuf_src, uint8_t *dst,
-               int offset, uint8_t *iv, uint8_t *key, int srclen,
-               EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx)
+               int offset, uint8_t *iv, int srclen, EVP_CIPHER_CTX *ctx)
 {
        uint8_t ebuf[8], ctr[8];
        int unused, n;
@@ -1155,12 +1163,6 @@ process_openssl_cipher_des3ctr(struct rte_mbuf 
*mbuf_src, uint8_t *dst,
        src = rte_pktmbuf_mtod_offset(m, uint8_t *, offset);
        l = rte_pktmbuf_data_len(m) - offset;
 
-       /* We use 3DES encryption also for decryption.
-        * IV is not important for 3DES ecb
-        */
-       if (EVP_EncryptInit_ex(ctx, EVP_des_ede3_ecb(), NULL, key, NULL) <= 0)
-               goto process_cipher_des3ctr_err;
-
        memcpy(ctr, iv, 8);
 
        for (n = 0; n < srclen; n++) {
@@ -1701,8 +1703,7 @@ process_openssl_cipher_op
                                        srclen, ctx_copy, inplace);
        else
                status = process_openssl_cipher_des3ctr(mbuf_src, dst,
-                               op->sym->cipher.data.offset, iv,
-                               sess->cipher.key.data, srclen,
+                               op->sym->cipher.data.offset, iv, srclen,
                                ctx_copy);
 
        EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(ctx_copy);
-- 
2.34.1

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