diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst
index d516ba8..8b45a13 100644
--- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst
@@ -94,6 +94,14 @@ two calls:
   here. Multiple cryptodevs can be attached initially by presenting this
   parameter multiple times.
 
+* mode: Specify the scheduling mode of the PMD. The supported scheduling
+  mode parameter values are specified in the "Cryptodev Scheduler Modes
+  Overview" section.
+
+* ordering: Specify the status of the crypto operations ordering feature.
+  The value of this paramter can be "enable" or "disable". This feature
+  is disabled by default.
+
 Example:
 
 .. code-block:: console
@@ -122,6 +130,8 @@ operation:
 
 *   **CDEV_SCHED_MODE_ROUNDROBIN:**
 
+   *Initialization mode parameter*: **round-robin**
+
    Round-robin mode, which distributes the enqueued burst of crypto ops
    among its slaves in a round-robin manner. This mode may help to fill
    the throughput gap between the physical core and the existing cryptodevs
@@ -129,6 +139,8 @@ operation:
 
 *   **CDEV_SCHED_MODE_PKT_SIZE_DISTR:**
 
+   *Initialization mode parameter*: **packet-size-distr**
+
    Packet-size based distribution mode, which works with 2 slaves, the primary
    slave and the secondary slave, and distributes the enqueued crypto
    operations to them based on their data lengths. A crypto operation will be
@@ -144,6 +156,8 @@ operation:
 
 *   **CDEV_SCHED_MODE_FAILOVER:**
 
+   *Initialization mode parameter*: **fail-over**
+
    Fail-over mode, which works with 2 slaves, the primary slave and the
    secondary slave. In this mode, the scheduler will enqueue the incoming
    crypto operation burst to the primary slave. When one or more crypto
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/scheduler/rte_cryptodev_scheduler.h b/drivers/crypto/scheduler/rte_cryptodev_scheduler.h
index 306dfea..fce746e 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/scheduler/rte_cryptodev_scheduler.h
+++ b/drivers/crypto/scheduler/rte_cryptodev_scheduler.h
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
+/* round-robin scheduling mode */
+#define SCHEDULER_MODE_NAME_ROUND_ROBIN		round-robin
+/* packet-size based distribution scheduling mode */
+#define SCHEDULER_MODE_NAME_PKT_SIZE_DISTR	packet-size-distr
+/* fail-over mode */
+#define SCHEDULER_MODE_NAME_FAIL_OVER		fail-over
+
 /**
  * Crypto scheduler PMD operation modes
  */
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/scheduler/scheduler_pmd.c b/drivers/crypto/scheduler/scheduler_pmd.c
index c1679ec..5f2b7f6 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/scheduler/scheduler_pmd.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/scheduler/scheduler_pmd.c
@@ -45,10 +45,14 @@ struct scheduler_init_params {
 	struct rte_crypto_vdev_init_params def_p;
 	uint32_t nb_slaves;
 	uint8_t slaves[MAX_SLAVES_NUM];
+	enum rte_cryptodev_scheduler_mode mode;
+	uint32_t enable_ordering;
 };
 
 #define RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_NAME				("name")
 #define RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_SLAVE			("slave")
+#define RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_MODE				("mode")
+#define RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_ORDERING			("ordering")
 #define RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_MAX_NB_QP_ARG	("max_nb_queue_pairs")
 #define RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_MAX_NB_SESS_ARG	("max_nb_sessions")
 #define RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_SOCKET_ID		("socket_id")
@@ -56,11 +60,32 @@ struct scheduler_init_params {
 const char *scheduler_valid_params[] = {
 	RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_NAME,
 	RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_SLAVE,
+	RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_MODE,
+	RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_ORDERING,
 	RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_MAX_NB_QP_ARG,
 	RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_MAX_NB_SESS_ARG,
 	RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_SOCKET_ID
 };
 
+struct scheduler_parse_map {
+	const char *name;
+	uint32_t val;
+};
+
+const struct scheduler_parse_map scheduler_mode_map[] = {
+	{RTE_STR(SCHEDULER_MODE_NAME_ROUND_ROBIN),
+			CDEV_SCHED_MODE_ROUNDROBIN},
+	{RTE_STR(SCHEDULER_MODE_NAME_PKT_SIZE_DISTR),
+			CDEV_SCHED_MODE_PKT_SIZE_DISTR},
+	{RTE_STR(SCHEDULER_MODE_NAME_FAIL_OVER),
+			CDEV_SCHED_MODE_FAILOVER}
+};
+
+const struct scheduler_parse_map scheduler_ordering_map[] = {
+		{"enable", 1},
+		{"disable", 0}
+};
+
 static int
 attach_init_slaves(uint8_t scheduler_id,
 		const uint8_t *slaves, const uint8_t nb_slaves)
@@ -79,8 +104,7 @@ attach_init_slaves(uint8_t scheduler_id,
 			return status;
 		}
 
-		RTE_LOG(INFO, PMD, "  Attached slave cryptodev %s\n",
-				dev->data->name);
+		RTE_LOG(INFO, PMD, "  Attached Slave %s\n", dev->data->name);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
@@ -93,9 +117,11 @@ cryptodev_scheduler_create(const char *name,
 	char crypto_dev_name[RTE_CRYPTODEV_NAME_MAX_LEN] = {0};
 	struct rte_cryptodev *dev;
 	struct scheduler_ctx *sched_ctx;
+	uint32_t i;
+	int ret;
 
 	if (init_params->def_p.name[0] == '\0') {
-		int ret = rte_cryptodev_pmd_create_dev_name(
+		ret = rte_cryptodev_pmd_create_dev_name(
 				crypto_dev_name,
 				RTE_STR(CRYPTODEV_NAME_SCHEDULER_PMD));
 
@@ -124,8 +150,46 @@ cryptodev_scheduler_create(const char *name,
 	sched_ctx->max_nb_queue_pairs =
 			init_params->def_p.max_nb_queue_pairs;
 
-	return attach_init_slaves(dev->data->dev_id, init_params->slaves,
+	ret = attach_init_slaves(dev->data->dev_id, init_params->slaves,
 			init_params->nb_slaves);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		rte_cryptodev_pmd_release_device(dev);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	if (sched_ctx->mode > CDEV_SCHED_MODE_USERDEFINED &&
+			sched_ctx->mode < CDEV_SCHED_MODE_COUNT) {
+		ret = rte_crpytodev_scheduler_mode_set(dev->data->dev_id,
+			init_params->mode);
+		if (ret < 0) {
+			rte_cryptodev_pmd_release_device(dev);
+			return ret;
+		}
+
+		for (i = 0; i < RTE_DIM(scheduler_mode_map); i++) {
+			if (scheduler_mode_map[i].val != sched_ctx->mode)
+				continue;
+
+			RTE_LOG(INFO, PMD, "  Scheduling mode = %s\n",
+					scheduler_mode_map[i].name);
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	sched_ctx->reordering_enabled = init_params->enable_ordering;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < RTE_DIM(scheduler_ordering_map); i++) {
+		if (scheduler_ordering_map[i].val !=
+				sched_ctx->reordering_enabled)
+			continue;
+
+		RTE_LOG(INFO, PMD, "  Packet ordering = %s\n",
+				scheduler_ordering_map[i].name);
+
+		break;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int
@@ -183,7 +247,7 @@ parse_integer_arg(const char *key __rte_unused,
 	*i = atoi(value);
 	if (*i < 0) {
 		CS_LOG_ERR("Argument has to be positive.\n");
-		return -1;
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
@@ -200,7 +264,7 @@ parse_name_arg(const char *key __rte_unused,
 		CS_LOG_ERR("Invalid name %s, should be less than "
 				"%u bytes.\n", value,
 				RTE_CRYPTODEV_NAME_MAX_LEN - 1);
-		return -1;
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	strncpy(params->name, value, RTE_CRYPTODEV_NAME_MAX_LEN);
@@ -219,12 +283,12 @@ parse_slave_arg(const char *key __rte_unused,
 
 	if (!dev) {
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, PMD, "Invalid slave name %s.\n", value);
-		return -1;
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	if (param->nb_slaves >= MAX_SLAVES_NUM - 1) {
 		CS_LOG_ERR("Too many slaves.\n");
-		return -1;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
 	param->slaves[param->nb_slaves] = dev->data->dev_id;
@@ -234,6 +298,52 @@ parse_slave_arg(const char *key __rte_unused,
 }
 
 static int
+parse_mode_arg(const char *key __rte_unused,
+		const char *value, void *extra_args)
+{
+	struct scheduler_init_params *param = extra_args;
+	uint32_t i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < RTE_DIM(scheduler_mode_map); i++) {
+		if (strcmp(value, scheduler_mode_map[i].name) == 0) {
+			param->mode = (enum rte_cryptodev_scheduler_mode)
+					scheduler_mode_map[i].val;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (i == RTE_DIM(scheduler_mode_map)) {
+		CS_LOG_ERR("Unrecognized input.\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int
+parse_ordering_arg(const char *key __rte_unused,
+		const char *value, void *extra_args)
+{
+	struct scheduler_init_params *param = extra_args;
+	uint32_t i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < RTE_DIM(scheduler_ordering_map); i++) {
+		if (strcmp(value, scheduler_ordering_map[i].name) == 0) {
+			param->enable_ordering =
+					scheduler_ordering_map[i].val;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (i == RTE_DIM(scheduler_ordering_map)) {
+		CS_LOG_ERR("Unrecognized input.\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int
 scheduler_parse_init_params(struct scheduler_init_params *params,
 		const char *input_args)
 {
@@ -280,6 +390,16 @@ scheduler_parse_init_params(struct scheduler_init_params *params,
 		if (ret < 0)
 			goto free_kvlist;
 
+		ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist, RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_MODE,
+				&parse_mode_arg, params);
+		if (ret < 0)
+			goto free_kvlist;
+
+		ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist, RTE_CRYPTODEV_VDEV_ORDERING,
+				&parse_ordering_arg, params);
+		if (ret < 0)
+			goto free_kvlist;
+
 		if (params->def_p.socket_id >= number_of_sockets()) {
 			CDEV_LOG_ERR("Invalid socket id specified to create "
 				"the virtual crypto device on");
@@ -303,7 +423,9 @@ cryptodev_scheduler_probe(const char *name, const char *input_args)
 			""
 		},
 		.nb_slaves = 0,
-		.slaves = {0}
+		.slaves = {0},
+		.mode = CDEV_SCHED_MODE_NOT_SET,
+		.enable_ordering = 0
 	};
 
 	scheduler_parse_init_params(&init_params, input_args);
