netdev - Re: ipsec impact on performance

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Date:	Mon, 7 Dec 2015 09:40:50 +0100
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ipsec impact on performance

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 06:38:20AM -0500, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
> On (12/03/15 09:45), Steffen Klassert wrote:
> > pcrypt(echainiv(authenc(hmac(sha1-ssse3),cbc-aes-aesni)))
> > 
> > Result:
> > 
> > iperf -c 10.0.0.12 -t 60
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Client connecting to 10.0.0.12, TCP port 5001
> > TCP window size: 45.0 KByte (default)
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > [  3] local 192.168.0.12 port 39380 connected with 10.0.0.12 port 5001
> > [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> > [  3]  0.0-60.0 sec  32.8 GBytes  4.70 Gbits/sec
> > 
> > I provide more informatios as soon as the code is available.
> 
> that's pretty good compared to the baseline. 

This is GRO in combination with a pcrypt parallelized
crypto algorithm, without the parallelization GRO/GSO
does not help because crypto is the bottleneck then.

> I'd like to try out our patches, when they are ready.

I've pushed it to

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/klassert/linux-stk.git/log/?h=net-next-ipsec-offload

It is just example code, nothing that I would show usually.
But you asked for it, so here is it :)

The GRO part seems to work well, the GSO part is just a hack at the 
moment.

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