netdev - RE: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/6] tcp: Add clean acked data hook

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Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:21:39 +0000
From:   Ilya Lesokhin <ilyal@...lanox.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     "davejwatson@...com" <davejwatson@...com>,
        "tom@...bertland.com" <tom@...bertland.com>,
        "hannes@...essinduktion.org" <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        Boris Pismenny <borisp@...lanox.com>,
        "Aviad Yehezkel" <aviadye@...lanox.com>,
        Liran Liss <liranl@...lanox.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 net-next 1/6] tcp: Add clean acked data hook

> 1) tcp_ack() is already very expensive.
> 
I'm not sure how what we should do with that comment. We need
Some trigger to free TLS records. tcp_ack seemed like a reasonable
Trigger.

> 2) Since you do not pass any state here, this looks very suspicious to
> me.
> 
The state we need is the acknowledged sequence and it located in the socket.
https://github.com/Mellanox/tls-offload/blob/tls_device_v3/net/tls/tls_device.c#L157