18/01/2018 15:59, Yuanhan Liu: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 08:01:03PM +0000, Fan Zhang wrote: > > This patchset adds crypto backend suppport to vhost_user library, > > including a proof-of-concept sample application. The implementation > > follows the virtio-crypto specification and have been tested > > with qemu 2.9.50 (with several patches applied, detailed later) > > with Fedora 24 running in the frontend. > > > > The vhost_user library acts as a "bridge" method that translate > > the virtio-crypto crypto requests to DPDK crypto operations, so it > > is purely software implementation. However it does require the user > > to provide the DPDK Cryptodev ID so it knows how to handle the > > virtio-crypto session creation and deletion mesages. > > > > Currently the implementation supports AES-CBC-128 and HMAC-SHA1 > > cipher only/chaining modes and does not support sessionless mode > > yet. The guest can use standard virtio-crypto driver to set up > > session and sends encryption/decryption requests to backend. The > > vhost-crypto sample application provided in this patchset will > > do the actual crypto work. > > > > To make this patchset working, a few tweaks need to be done: > > > > In the host: > > 1. Download the qemu source code, and apply the patches in: > > list.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg04664.html. > > I could not open it. What's the status of them now? Have they got > merged?
As usual, we must wait to have Qemu support ready. How this work is related to drivers/crypto/virtio/ proposed by Jay Zhou (Huawei)?
