On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 18:30:10 +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote: > Hi Dave, > > This series from Eran and me, adds TLS TX HW offload support to > the mlx5 driver. > > This offloads the kTLS encryption process from kernel to the > Mellanox NIC, saving CPU cycles and improving utilization. > > Upon a new TLS connection request, driver is responsible to create > a dedicated HW context and configure it according to the crypto info, > so HW can do the encryption itself. > > When the HW context gets out-of-sync (i.e. due to packets retransmission), > driver is responsible for the re-sync process. > This is done by posting special resync descriptors to the HW. > > Feature is supported on Mellanox Connect-X 6DX, and newer. > Series was tested on SimX simulator. > > Series generated against net-next commit [1], with Saeed's request pulled [2]: > > [1] c4cde5804d51 Merge > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next > [2] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux.git > tags/mlx5-updates-2019-07-04-v2 > > Changes from last pull request: > Fixed comments from Jakub: > Patch 4: > - Replace zero memset with a call to memzero_explicit(). > Patch 11: > - Fix stats counters names. > - Drop TLS SKB with non-matching netdev.
You guys probably really want to make 5.3 with this, so please feel free to follow up on the comments to patch 12 separately. Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com>
