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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hpe.com>
Subject: Re: ipsec impact on performance
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 16:12:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151202211201.GD15262@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALx6S34yqw_vJ+r21Br9O7y5NqzvA264ot7=GBTHe=FxWqh=AQ@mail.gmail.com>

On (12/02/15 13:07), Tom Herbert wrote:
> That's easy enough to add to flow dissector, but is SPI really
> intended to be used an L4 entropy value? We would need to consider the

yes. To quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Parameter_Index
"This works like port numbers in TCP and UDP connections. What it means
 is that there could be different SAs used to provide security to one
 connection. An SA could therefore act as a set of rules."

> effects of running multiple TCP connections over an IPsec. Also, you
> might want to try IPv6, the flow label should provide a good L4 hash
> for RPS/RFS, it would be interesting to see what the effects are with
> IPsec processing. (ESP/UDP could also if RSS/ECMP is critical)

IPv6 would be an interesting academic exercise, but it's going
to be a while before we get RDS-TCP to go over IPv6.

--Sowmini

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-02 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-01 17:59 ipsec impact on performance Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-01 18:17 ` Rick Jones
2015-12-01 18:45   ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-01 18:50     ` Rick Jones
2015-12-01 19:01       ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-02  0:56   ` David Ahern
2015-12-02  1:09     ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-02  1:25       ` David Ahern
2015-12-01 18:18 ` Tom Herbert
2015-12-01 18:37   ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-02 11:56     ` David Laight
2015-12-02 12:11       ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-02 12:41         ` David Laight
2015-12-02 13:25           ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-02 20:50           ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-02 21:07             ` Tom Herbert
2015-12-02 21:12               ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2015-12-02 21:44                 ` Tom Herbert
2015-12-02 21:47                   ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-02 22:01                     ` Tom Herbert
2015-12-02 22:08                       ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-02 22:25                 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-12-03  1:31       ` Rick Jones
2015-12-02  6:53 ` Steffen Klassert
2015-12-02 12:05   ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-03  8:45     ` Steffen Klassert
2015-12-03 11:38       ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-03 11:47         ` Steffen Klassert
2015-12-07  8:40         ` Steffen Klassert
2015-12-07 11:27           ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-08 11:32             ` Steffen Klassert
2015-12-08 11:51               ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-03 19:33 ` David Miller
2015-12-03 20:08   ` Eric Dumazet
2015-12-03 20:32   ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-12-04  5:18 ` Sandy Harris

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