Terminology

ADF: Acceleration Driver Framework.
AEAD: Authenticated Encryption With Associated Data.
AES: Advanced Encryption Standard.
ADI: Assignable Device Interface
API: Application Programming Interface.
ASIC: Application Specific Integrated Circuit.
BDF: Bus Device Function.
BIOS: Basic Input/Output System.
BMSM: Broad Market Switch Mode.
BOM: Bill of Materials.
BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution.
BTS: Base Transceiver Station.
CBC: Cipher Block Chaining mode.
CCM: Counter with CBC-MAC mode.
CLI: Command Line Interface.
CSR: Configuration Status Register.
CnV: Compress and Verify.
CnVnR: Compress and Verify and Recover.
CPK: Columbia Park.
C-States: C-States are advanced CPU current lowering technologies.
CY: Cryptography.
DC: Data Compression.
DID: Device ID.
DMA: Direct Memory Access.
DPDK: Data Plane Development Kit.
DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory.
DSA: Digital Signature Algorithm.
DTLS: Datagram Transport Layer Security.
ECC: Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
ECDH: Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman.
ESP: Encapsulating Security Payload.
EVP: Envelope (OpenSSL* high-level cryptographic functions).
FLR: Function Level Reset.
FW: Firmware.
GCM: Galois/Counter Mode.
GigE: Gigabit Ethernet.
GPL: General Public License.
GRUB: GRand Unified Bootloader.
GUI: Graphical User Interface.
HLP: Highland Park.
HMAC: Hash-based Message Authentication Mode.
IA: Intel® Architecture.
IDS/IPS: Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention System.
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
IKE: Internet Key Exchange.
Intel® QAT: Intel® QuickAssist Technology.
Intel® SpeedStep® Technology: Advanced means of enabling very high performance while also meeting the power-conservation needs of mobile systems.
Intel® VT: Intel® Virtualization Technology.
IOCTL: Input Output Control function.
IOMMU: Input-Output Memory Management Unit.
IPSec: Internet Protocol Security.
KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine.
LAC: LookAside Crypto.
Latency: The time between the submission of an operation via the QuickAssist API and the completion of that operation.
LKCF: Linux* Kernel Cryptographic Framework.
MGF: Mask Generation Function.
MSI: Message Signaled Interrupts.
NUMA: Non-uniform Memory Access.
Offload Cost: This refers to the cost, in CPU cycles, of driving the hardware accelerator. This cost includes the cost of submitting an operation via the Intel® QuickAssist API and the cost of processing responses from the hardware.
OP Data: Operational Data.
OS: Operating System.
PCH: Platform Controller Hub. In this manual, a Platform Controller Hub device includes standard interfaces and Intel® QAT Endpoint and I/O interfaces.
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect.
PF: Physical Function.
PKE: Public Key Encryption.
PMD: Poll Mode Driver.
RAS: Reliability, Availability, Serviceability.
RDK: Reference Design Kit.
RHEL*: Red Hat Enterprise Linux*.
RSA: Rivest-Shamir-Adleman.
SAL: Service Access Layer.
SATA: Serial Advanced Technology Attachment.
SGL: Scatter-Gather List.
SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm.
SoC: System-on-a-Chip.
SOL: Sign-Of-Life.
SPI: Serial Peripheral Interconnect.
SR-IOV: Single-Root Input/Output Virtualization.
SSC: Storage Subsystem Class.
SSL: Secure Sockets Layer.
SYM: Symmetric Crypto.
TCG: Trusted Computing Group.
Throughput: The accelerator throughput usually expressed in terms of either requests per second or bytes per second.
TLS: Transport Layer Security.
TPM: Trusted Platform Module.
UDP: User Datagram Protocol.
USDM: User Space DMA-able Memory.
VF: Virtual Function.
VM: Virtual Machine.
VPN: Virtual Private Network.
WAN: Wide Area Network.