From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next 00/10][pull request] 10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-01-23 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:25:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20180124.142505.18939180273833794.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20180123182108.30789-1-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com, jogreene@redhat.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:48574 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752234AbeAXTZI (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:25:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 08:59:23 -0800 > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:20 AM, Jeff Kirsher > wrote: >> This series contains updates to ixgbe only. >> >> Shannon Nelson provides an implementation of the ipsec hardware offload >> feature for the ixgbe driver for these devices: x540, x550, 82599. >> >> The ixgbe NICs support ipsec offload for 1024 Rx and 1024 Tx Security >> Associations (SAs), using up to 128 inbound IP addresses, and using the >> rfc4106(gcm(aes)) encryption. This code does not yet support checksum >> offload, or TSO in conjunction with the ipsec offload - those will be >> added in the future. >> >> This code shows improvements in both packet throughput and CPU utilization. >> For example, here are some quicky numbers that show the magnitude of the >> performance gain on a single run of "iperf -c " with the ipsec >> offload on both ends of a point-to-point connection: >> >> 9.4 Gbps - normal case >> 7.6 Gbps - ipsec with offload >> 343 Mbps - ipsec no offload > > Dave, looks like you pulled this in as well, correct? I did not > receive notification. My bad, I thought I did say I pulled it. :-)