netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Support asynchronous crypto for IPsec GSO.

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Date:   Thu, 21 Dec 2017 07:39:46 +0100
From:   Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/5] Support asynchronous crypto for IPsec GSO.

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:13:03AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> This patchset implements asynchronous crypto handling
> in the layer 2 TX path. With this we can allow IPsec
> ESP GSO for software crypto. This also merges the IPsec
> GSO and non-GSO paths to both use validate_xmit_xfrm().
> 
> 1) Separate ESP handling from segmentation for GRO packets.
>    This unifies the IPsec GSO and non GSO codepath.
> 
> 2) Add asynchronous callbacks for xfrm on layer 2. This
>    adds the necessary infrastructure to core networking.
> 
> 3) Allow to use the layer2 IPsec GSO codepath for software
>    crypto, all infrastructure is there now.
> 
> 4) Also allow IPsec GSO with software crypto for local sockets.
> 
> 5) Don't require synchronous crypto fallback on IPsec offloading,
>    it is not needed anymore.
> 
> I plan to merge this to ipsec-next during this development cycle.

This is now applied to ipsec-next.