Re: [net-next v2 0/6] net: support QUIC crypto

[Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>]

On 8/18/22 03:09, Adel Abouchaev wrote:
> QUIC requires end to end encryption of the data. The application usually
> prepares the data in clear text, encrypts and calls send() which implies
> multiple copies of the data before the packets hit the networking stack.
> Similar to kTLS, QUIC kernel offload of cryptography reduces the memory
> pressure by reducing the number of copies.
> 
> The scope of kernel support is limited to the symmetric cryptography,
> leaving the handshake to the user space library. For QUIC in particular,
> the application packets that require symmetric cryptography are the 1RTT
> packets with short headers. Kernel will encrypt the application packets
> on transmission and decrypt on receive. This series implements Tx only,
> because in QUIC server applications Tx outweighs Rx by orders of
> magnitude.
> 
> Supporting the combination of QUIC and GSO requires the application to
> correctly place the data and the kernel to correctly slice it. The
> encryption process appends an arbitrary number of bytes (tag) to the end
> of the message to authenticate it. The GSO value should include this
> overhead, the offload would then subtract the tag size to parse the
> input on Tx before chunking and encrypting it.
> 
> With the kernel cryptography, the buffer copy operation is conjoined
> with the encryption operation. The memory bandwidth is reduced by 5-8%.
> When devices supporting QUIC encryption in hardware come to the market,
> we will be able to free further 7% of CPU utilization which is used
> today for crypto operations.
> 
> Adel Abouchaev (6):
>   Documentation on QUIC kernel Tx crypto.
>   Define QUIC specific constants, control and data plane structures
>   Add UDP ULP operations, initialization and handling prototype
>     functions.
>   Implement QUIC offload functions
>   Add flow counters and Tx processing error counter
>   Add self tests for ULP operations, flow setup and crypto tests
> 
>  Documentation/networking/index.rst     |    1 +
>  Documentation/networking/quic.rst      |  185 ++++
>  include/net/inet_sock.h                |    2 +
>  include/net/netns/mib.h                |    3 +
>  include/net/quic.h                     |   63 ++
>  include/net/snmp.h                     |    6 +
>  include/net/udp.h                      |   33 +
>  include/uapi/linux/quic.h              |   60 +
>  include/uapi/linux/snmp.h              |    9 +
>  include/uapi/linux/udp.h               |    4 +
>  net/Kconfig                            |    1 +
>  net/Makefile                           |    1 +
>  net/ipv4/Makefile                      |    3 +-
>  net/ipv4/udp.c                         |   15 +
>  net/ipv4/udp_ulp.c                     |  192 ++++
>  net/quic/Kconfig                       |   16 +
>  net/quic/Makefile                      |    8 +
>  net/quic/quic_main.c                   | 1417 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  net/quic/quic_proc.c                   |   45 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/.gitignore |    4 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/Makefile   |    3 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/quic.c     | 1153 +++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/quic.sh    |   46 +
>  23 files changed, 3267 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/quic.rst
>  create mode 100644 include/net/quic.h
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/quic.h
>  create mode 100644 net/ipv4/udp_ulp.c
>  create mode 100644 net/quic/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 net/quic/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 net/quic/quic_main.c
>  create mode 100644 net/quic/quic_proc.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/net/quic.c
>  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/net/quic.sh
> 
> 
> base-commit: fd78d07c7c35de260eb89f1be4a1e7487b8092ad

Applied, but based on f86d1fbbe78588 ("Merge tag 'net-next-6.0' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next") instead,
since this series fails to apply on the specified base-commit tag.

Thanks.

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