netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] xfrm: hold device only for the asynchronous decryption

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Message-Id: 
 <175336380876.2396070.3234412767137065519.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:30:08 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xfrm: hold device only for the asynchronous
 decryption

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>:

On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:03:48 +0200 you wrote:
> From: Jianbo Liu <jianbol@...dia.com>
> 
> The dev_hold() on skb->dev during packet reception was originally
> added to prevent the device from being released prematurely during
> asynchronous decryption operations.
> 
> As current hardware can offload decryption, this asynchronous path is
> not always utilized. This often results in a pattern of dev_hold()
> immediately followed by dev_put() for each packet, creating
> unnecessary reference counting overhead detrimental to performance.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [1/3] xfrm: hold device only for the asynchronous decryption
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/b05d42eefac7
  - [2/3] xfrm: Duplicate SPI Handling
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/94f39804d891
  - [3/3] xfrm: Skip redundant statistics update for crypto offload
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/95cfe23285a6

You are awesome, thank you!
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