On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 1:18 PM Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > > This is an initial functional implementation for doing pass-through of > hardware encryption from bonding device to capable slaves, in active-backup > bond setups. This was developed and tested using ixgbe-driven Intel x520 > interfaces with libreswan and a transport mode connection, primarily using > netperf, with assorted connection failures forced during transmission. The > failover works quite well in my testing, and overall performance is right > on par with offload when running on a bare interface, no bond involved. > > Caveats: this is ONLY enabled for active-backup, because I'm not sure > how one would manage multiple offload handles for different devices all > running at the same time in the same xfrm, and it relies on some minor > changes to both the xfrm code and slave device driver code to get things > to behave, and I don't have immediate access to any other hardware that > could function similarly, but the NIC driver changes are minimal and > straight-forward enough that I've included what I think ought to be > enough for mlx5 devices too. > > v2: reordered patches, switched (back) to using CONFIG_XFRM_OFFLOAD > to wrap the code additions and wrapped overlooked additions. > > Jarod Wilson (4): > xfrm: bail early on slave pass over skb > ixgbe_ipsec: become aware of when running as a bonding slave > mlx5: become aware of when running as a bonding slave > bonding: support hardware encryption offload to slaves > > drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 127 +++++++++++++++++- > .../net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c | 39 ++++-- > .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.c | 6 + > include/net/bonding.h | 3 + > include/net/xfrm.h | 1 + > net/xfrm/xfrm_device.c | 34 ++--- > 6 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
Was this ever sent to netdev (the more appropriate ML)? -- Cheers, Jeff
