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. Earlier RFC submissions of this set didn't get any feedback, other than from the build bot, so I'm hoping silence means nobody hated it... Jarod Wilson (4): xfrm: bail early on slave pass over skb ixgbe_ipsec: become aware of when running as a bonding slave bonding: support hardware encryption offload to slaves mlx5: support crypto offload as a bonding slave drivers/net/Kconfig | 11 ++ drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 111 +++++++++++++++++- .../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 +++--- 7 files changed, 177 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) -- 2.20.1