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Date:	Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:13:47 +0100
From:	James Courtier-Dutton <James@...erbug.co.uk>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, dwalker@...sta.com,
	arjan@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	steffen.klassert@...unet.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2]: Remote softirq invocation infrastructure.

Herbert Xu wrote:
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> receive using multiple RX queues and MSI-X interrupts.  It's
>> also for things like IPSEC where the per-packet cpu usage
>> is so huge (to do the crypto) that it makes sense to even
>> split up the work to multiple cpus within the same flow.
> 
> Unfortunately doing this with IPsec is going to be non-trivial
> since we still want to maintain packet ordering inside IPsec
> and you don't get the inner flow information until you decrypt
> the packet.
> 

Why do you have to preserve packet ordering?
TCP/IP does not preserve packet ordering across the network.
IPSEC uses a sliding window for anti-relay detection precisely because
it has to be able to handle out-of-order packets.

Sharing the sliding window between CPUs might be interesting!

James
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