Ilan Tayari <il...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org]
> > Subject: [RFC net-next 9/9] xfrm: add a small xdst pcpu cache
> > 
> > retain last used xfrm_dst in a pcpu cache.
> > On next request, reuse this dst if the policies are the same.
> > 
> > UDP tests used 64byte packets, tests ran for one minute each,
> > value is average over ten iterations.
> 
> Hi Florian,
> 
> I want to give this a go with hw-offload and see the impact on performance.
> It may take us a few days to do that.

Sure, take your time, thanks for testing!

> > +void xfrm_policy_dev_unreg(void)
> 
> Maybe name it xfrm_policy_cache_flush() or something similar, and call it 
> from some places where xfrm_garbage_collect() used to be called?
> 
> Such as from xfrm_policy_flush()
> And maybe even from xfrm_flush_sa() as well
> 
> This would allow to unload esp4 and/or esp4_offload (or other algo module) 
> after 'ip x s f' (or the swan equivalent)

Good point.  I did not consider module unload just device removal.

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