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Re: [PATCH net-next] xfrm: Add support for network devices capable of removing the ESP trailer

From Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH net-next] xfrm: Add support for network devices capable of removing the ESP trailer
Date 2017-08-31 14:00 +0200
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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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Re: [PATCH net-next] xfrm: Add support for network devices capable  of removing the ESP trailer Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> - 2017-08-31 14:00 +0200

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