linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] net/tls: support maximum record size limit

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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 23:41:53 +0000
From: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net/tls: support maximum record size limit

On Wed, 2025-09-03 at 15:51 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed,  3 Sep 2025 11:47:57 +1000 Wilfred Mallawa wrote:
> > Upcoming Western Digital NVMe-TCP hardware controllers implement
> > TLS
> > support. For these devices, supporting TLS record size negotiation
> > is
> > necessary because the maximum TLS record size supported by the
> > controller
> > is less than the default 16KB currently used by the kernel.
> 
> Just to be clear -- the device does not require that the records
> align
> with TCP segments, right?
Yeah, that's correct. There is no requirement for alignment of TLS
records with TCP segments.

Cheers,
Wilfred