netdev - Re: [PATCH ipsec-next v10 00/16] Add IP-TFS mode to xfrm

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Message-ID: <Zs2f8h7sJYv4jkiq@gauss3.secunet.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:44:18 +0200
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To: Christian Hopps <chopps@...pps.org>
CC: <devel@...ux-ipsec.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Florian Westphal
	<fw@...len.de>, Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>, Simon Horman
	<horms@...nel.org>, Antony Antony <antony@...nome.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipsec-next v10 00/16] Add IP-TFS mode to xfrm

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 10:20:38PM -0400, Christian Hopps wrote:
> * Summary of Changes:
> 
> This patchset adds a new xfrm mode implementing on-demand IP-TFS. IP-TFS
> (AggFrag encapsulation) has been standardized in RFC9347.
> 
>   Link: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9347.txt
> 
> This feature supports demand driven (i.e., non-constant send rate)
> IP-TFS to take advantage of the AGGFRAG ESP payload encapsulation. This
> payload type supports aggregation and fragmentation of the inner IP
> packet stream which in turn yields higher small-packet bandwidth as well
> as reducing MTU/PMTU issues. Congestion control is unimplementated as
> the send rate is demand driven rather than constant.
> 
> In order to allow loading this fucntionality as a module a set of
> callbacks xfrm_mode_cbs has been added to xfrm as well.

I consider to apply this version to ipsec-next if we don't
get further review in the next days. Do reviewers and
testers of previous versions want to add some tags before
that?