netdev - Re: [GIT PULL v1] Improve IPsec limits, ESN and replay window

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Message-ID: <20230407190155.GO4514@unreal>
Date:   Fri, 7 Apr 2023 22:01:55 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        Raed Salem <raeds@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v1] Improve IPsec limits, ESN and replay window

On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 10:19:02AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> This series overcomes existing hardware limitations in Mellanox ConnectX
> devices around handling IPsec soft and hard limits.
> 
> In addition, the ESN logic is tied and added an interface to configure
> replay window sequence numbers through existing iproute2 interface.
> 
>   ip xfrm state ... [ replay-seq SEQ ] [ replay-oseq SEQ ]
>                     [ replay-seq-hi SEQ ] [ replay-oseq-hi SEQ ]
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1680162300.git.leonro@nvidia.com
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi,

I see that this PR is marked as "Awaiting upstream".
What does it mean in context of this PR?
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20230406071902.712388-1-leon@kernel.org/

Thanks