netdev - Re: [net-next 10/15] net/tls: Perform immediate device ctx cleanup when possible

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Date:   Wed, 6 Jul 2022 19:21:07 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>,
        Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 10/15] net/tls: Perform immediate device ctx cleanup
 when possible

On Wed,  6 Jul 2022 16:24:16 -0700 Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
> 
> TLS context destructor can be run in atomic context. Cleanup operations
> for device-offloaded contexts could require access and interaction with
> the device callbacks, which might sleep. Hence, the cleanup of such
> contexts must be deferred and completed inside an async work.
> 
> For all others, this is not necessary, as cleanup is atomic. Invoke
> cleanup immediately for them, avoiding queueuing redundant gc work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>

Not sure if posting core patches as part of driver PRs is a good idea,
if I ack this now the tag will not propagate.