Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:56:28 +0200 | From | Steffen Klassert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next] xfrm: Add support for network devices capable of removing the ESP trailer |
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:30:39AM +0300, yossiku@mellanox.com wrote: > From: Yossi Kuperman <yossiku@mellanox.com> > > In conjunction with crypto offload [1], removing the ESP trailer by > hardware can potentially improve the performance by avoiding (1) a > cache miss incurred by reading the nexthdr field and (2) the necessity > to calculate the csum value of the trailer in order to keep skb->csum > valid. > > This patch introduces the changes to the xfrm stack and merely serves > as an infrastructure. Subsequent patch to mlx5 driver will put this to > a good use. > > [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg175733.html > > Signed-off-by: Yossi Kuperman <yossiku@mellanox.com>
Applied to ipsec-next, thanks Yossi!
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