diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bd1f1e78a..62e5dc85e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
 A new API was added `spdk_accel_get_capabilities` that allows applications to
 query the capabilities of the currently enabled accel engine back-end.
 
+A new capability, CRC-32C, was added via `spdk_accel_submit_crc32c`.
+
+The software accel engine implemenation has added support for CRC-32C.
+
 ## v20.04:
 
 ### configuration
diff --git a/include/spdk/accel_engine.h b/include/spdk/accel_engine.h
index 2a74e3fd2..3fde134a0 100644
--- a/include/spdk/accel_engine.h
+++ b/include/spdk/accel_engine.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ enum accel_capability {
 	ACCEL_DUALCAST		= 1 << 2,
 	ACCEL_COMPARE		= 1 << 3,
 	ACCEL_BATCH		= 1 << 4,
-	ACCEL_CRC		= 1 << 5,
+	ACCEL_CRC32C		= 1 << 5,
 	ACCEL_DIF		= 1 << 6,
 };
 
@@ -153,6 +153,25 @@ int spdk_accel_submit_copy(struct spdk_accel_task *accel_req, struct spdk_io_cha
 int spdk_accel_submit_fill(struct spdk_accel_task *accel_req, struct spdk_io_channel *ch,
 			   void *dst, uint8_t fill, uint64_t nbytes, spdk_accel_completion_cb cb);
 
+/**
+ * Submit a CRC-32C calculation request.
+ *
+ * This operation will calculate the 4 byte CRC32-C for the given data.
+ *
+ * \param accel_req Accel request task.
+ * \param ch I/O channel to submit request to the accel engine. This channel can
+ * be obtained by the function spdk_accel_engine_get_io_channel().
+ * \param dst Destination to write the CRC-32C to.
+ * \param src The source address for the data.
+ * \param seed Four byte seed value.
+ * \param nbytes Length in bytes.
+ * \param cb Called when this CRC-32C operation completes.
+ *
+ * \return 0 on success, negative errno on failure.
+ */
+int spdk_accel_submit_crc32c(struct spdk_accel_task *accel_req, struct spdk_io_channel *ch,
+			     uint32_t *dst, void *src, uint32_t seed, uint64_t nbytes, spdk_accel_completion_cb cb);
+
 /**
  * Get the size of an acceleration task.
  *
diff --git a/include/spdk_internal/accel_engine.h b/include/spdk_internal/accel_engine.h
index f430779c1..6488b4aed 100644
--- a/include/spdk_internal/accel_engine.h
+++ b/include/spdk_internal/accel_engine.h
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ struct spdk_accel_engine {
 		    uint64_t nbytes, spdk_accel_completion_cb cb);
 	int (*fill)(void *cb_arg, struct spdk_io_channel *ch, void *dst, uint8_t fill,
 		    uint64_t nbytes, spdk_accel_completion_cb cb);
+	int (*crc32c)(void *cb_arg, struct spdk_io_channel *ch, uint32_t *dst, void *src,
+		      uint32_t seed, uint64_t nbytes, spdk_accel_completion_cb cb);
 	struct spdk_io_channel *(*get_io_channel)(void);
 };
 
diff --git a/lib/accel/Makefile b/lib/accel/Makefile
index d288e4ea1..0cb8679f9 100644
--- a/lib/accel/Makefile
+++ b/lib/accel/Makefile
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ SPDK_ROOT_DIR := $(abspath $(CURDIR)/../..)
 include $(SPDK_ROOT_DIR)/mk/spdk.common.mk
 
 SO_VER := 2
-SO_MINOR := 1
+SO_MINOR := 2
 SO_SUFFIX := $(SO_VER).$(SO_MINOR)
 
 LIBNAME = accel
diff --git a/lib/accel/accel_engine.c b/lib/accel/accel_engine.c
index a4cbc6ced..32027a9ec 100644
--- a/lib/accel/accel_engine.c
+++ b/lib/accel/accel_engine.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #include "spdk/event.h"
 #include "spdk/thread.h"
 #include "spdk/json.h"
+#include "spdk/crc32.h"
 
 /* Accelerator Engine Framework: The following provides a top level
  * generic API for the accelerator functions defined here. Modules,
@@ -133,6 +134,21 @@ spdk_accel_submit_fill(struct spdk_accel_task *accel_req, struct spdk_io_channel
 				      _accel_engine_done);
 }
 
+/* Accel framework public API for CRC-32C function */
+int
+spdk_accel_submit_crc32c(struct spdk_accel_task *accel_req, struct spdk_io_channel *ch,
+			 uint32_t *dst, void *src, uint32_t seed, uint64_t nbytes, spdk_accel_completion_cb cb)
+{
+	struct spdk_accel_task *req = accel_req;
+	struct accel_io_channel *accel_ch = spdk_io_channel_get_ctx(ch);
+
+	req->cb = cb;
+	return accel_ch->engine->crc32c(req->offload_ctx, accel_ch->ch, dst, src,
+					seed, nbytes,
+					_accel_engine_done);
+}
+
+
 /* Returns the largest context size of the accel modules. */
 size_t
 spdk_accel_task_size(void)
@@ -286,7 +302,7 @@ spdk_accel_engine_config_text(FILE *fp)
 static uint64_t
 sw_accel_get_capabilities(void)
 {
-	return ACCEL_COPY | ACCEL_FILL;
+	return ACCEL_COPY | ACCEL_FILL | ACCEL_CRC32C;
 }
 
 static int
@@ -319,12 +335,28 @@ sw_accel_submit_fill(void *cb_arg, struct spdk_io_channel *ch, void *dst, uint8_
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int
+sw_accel_submit_crc32c(void *cb_arg, struct spdk_io_channel *ch, uint32_t *dst, void *src,
+		       uint32_t seed, uint64_t nbytes,
+		       spdk_accel_completion_cb cb)
+{
+	struct spdk_accel_task *accel_req;
+
+	*dst = spdk_crc32c_update(src, nbytes, ~seed);
+	accel_req = (struct spdk_accel_task *)((uintptr_t)cb_arg -
+					       offsetof(struct spdk_accel_task, offload_ctx));
+	cb(accel_req, 0);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static struct spdk_io_channel *sw_accel_get_io_channel(void);
 
 static struct spdk_accel_engine sw_accel_engine = {
 	.get_capabilities	= sw_accel_get_capabilities,
 	.copy			= sw_accel_submit_copy,
 	.fill			= sw_accel_submit_fill,
+	.crc32c			= sw_accel_submit_crc32c,
 	.get_io_channel		= sw_accel_get_io_channel,
 };
 
diff --git a/lib/accel/spdk_accel.map b/lib/accel/spdk_accel.map
index af490b3d2..992d1faf6 100644
--- a/lib/accel/spdk_accel.map
+++ b/lib/accel/spdk_accel.map
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 	spdk_accel_get_capabilities;
 	spdk_accel_submit_copy;
 	spdk_accel_submit_fill;
+	spdk_accel_submit_crc32c;
 	spdk_accel_task_size;
 	spdk_accel_write_config_json;
 
diff --git a/mk/spdk.lib_deps.mk b/mk/spdk.lib_deps.mk
index a8392b2e6..1d37bdd46 100644
--- a/mk/spdk.lib_deps.mk
+++ b/mk/spdk.lib_deps.mk
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ DEPDIRS-reduce := log util
 DEPDIRS-thread := log util
 
 DEPDIRS-blob := log util thread
-DEPDIRS-accel := log thread
+DEPDIRS-accel := log util thread
 DEPDIRS-jsonrpc := log util json
 DEPDIRS-virtio := log util json thread
 
diff --git a/module/accel/idxd/accel_engine_idxd.c b/module/accel/idxd/accel_engine_idxd.c
index fee935e52..64d647b8b 100644
--- a/module/accel/idxd/accel_engine_idxd.c
+++ b/module/accel/idxd/accel_engine_idxd.c
@@ -284,8 +284,7 @@ idxd_submit_fill(void *cb_arg, struct spdk_io_channel *ch, void *dst, uint8_t fi
 static uint64_t
 idxd_get_capabilities(void)
 {
-	return ACCEL_COPY | ACCEL_FILL | ACCEL_DUALCAST | ACCEL_COMPARE |
-	       ACCEL_BATCH | ACCEL_CRC	| ACCEL_DIF;
+	return ACCEL_COPY | ACCEL_FILL;
 }
 
 static struct spdk_accel_engine idxd_accel_engine = {