From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Kiran Kella <kiran.kella@broadcom.com>
Cc: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@gmail.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/7] psp: add core tracked stat for outstanding tx keys
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:29:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261028152950.6624ee83@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPHeo3erVfzLE0wTmz4=0HKWdOL63+7W2KXO67OuEfRXhf_M8Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:16:17 +0530 Kiran Kella wrote:
> > + -
> > + name: tx-key-count
> > + type: uint
> > + doc: |
> > + Current number of Tx keys installed on the device.
> > + Only visible if the driver stores keys on device.
> > + Kernel statistic.
> >
>
> Maybe it is good to have a counter that denotes the number of PSP
> sessions set up on a device, which is managed in
> psp_dev_tx_key_add/psp_dev_tx_key_del operations similar to the
> tx-key-count. That way, even in non-SADB drivers the user can know the
> scale of the PSP sessions set up on a device at any time.
AFAIR the thinking was to also implicitly flag that the device has
an SADB here. So this stat should probably be called tx-sadb-key-count.
We couldn't think of a reason to count the tx keys when SADB is not
present. Rx keys? maybe, because of SPI exhaustion. Tx keys - why..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-28 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-09 20:46 [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] psp: support rekeying psp protected tcp connections Daniel Zahka
2026-10-09 20:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/7] psp: support rx rekey operation Daniel Zahka
2026-10-10 21:43 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-09 20:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/7] psp: support tx " Daniel Zahka
2026-10-10 21:43 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-09 20:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/7] psp: defer tx key deletions for SADB drivers Daniel Zahka
2026-10-10 21:43 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-09 20:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/7] psp: add core tracked stat for outstanding tx keys Daniel Zahka
2026-10-10 21:43 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-28 11:46 ` Kiran Kella
2026-10-28 22:29 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-10-29 7:14 ` Kiran Kella
2026-10-29 11:03 ` Daniel Zahka
2026-10-09 20:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/7] selftests: drv-net: psp: factor out psp connection setup Daniel Zahka
2026-10-10 21:43 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-09 20:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/7] selftests: drv-net: psp: add rekey tests Daniel Zahka
2026-10-10 21:43 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-09 20:46 ` [PATCH net-next v2 7/7] selftests: drv-net: psp: add a tx rekey drain test for SADB drivers Daniel Zahka
2026-10-20 11:12 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] psp: support rekeying psp protected tcp connections Daniel Zahka
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