From: sundeep subbaraya <sundeep.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>,
liorna@nvidia.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>,
Raed Salem <raeds@nvidia.com>,
antoine.tenart@bootlin.com,
Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@marvell.com>,
naveenm@marvell.com, Sunil Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>,
Geetha sowjanya <gakula@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 07/17] net/mlx5: Add MACsec offload Tx command support
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:44:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALHRZup8+nSNoD_=wSKGym3=EPMKoU+1UxbVReOv8xnBnTeRiw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220914203849.fn45bvuem2l3ppqq@sx1>
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 2:08 AM Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> On 14 Sep 20:09, sundeep subbaraya wrote:
> >Hi Saeed and Lior,
> >
> >Your mdo_ops can fail in the commit phase and do not validate input
> >params in the prepare phase.
> >Is that okay? I am developing MACSEC offload driver for Marvell CN10K
>
> It's ok since i think there is no reason to have the two steps system ! it
> doesn't make any sense to me ! prepare and commit are invoked consecutively
> one after the other for all mdo_ops and in every offload flow, with no extra
> step in between! so it's totally redundant.
>
> when i reviewed the series initially i was hesitant to check params
> on prepare step but i didn't see any reason since commit can still fail in
> the firmware anyways and there is nothing we can do about it !
Yes, same with us where messages sent to the AF driver can fail in the
commit phase.
> so we've decide to keep all the flows in one context for better readability
> and since the prepare/commit phases are confusing.
>
Okay. I will do the whole init in the prepare phase only and return 0
in the commit phase.
> >and I had to write some clever code
> >to honour that :). Please someone help me understand why two phase
> >init was needed for offloading.
> >
>
> I don't know, let's ask the original author, Antoine ?
> CC: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Thanks. I added antoine.tenart@bootlin.com in my previous mail but bounced back.
Sundeep
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-15 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-06 5:21 [PATCH net-next V2 00/17] Introduce MACsec skb_metadata_dst and mlx5 macsec offload Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 01/17] net/macsec: Add MACsec skb_metadata_dst Tx Data path support Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 02/17] net/macsec: Add MACsec skb_metadata_dst Rx " Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 03/17] net/macsec: Move some code for sharing with various drivers that implements offload Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 04/17] net/mlx5: Removed esp_id from struct mlx5_flow_act Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 05/17] net/mlx5: Generalize Flow Context for new crypto fields Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 06/17] net/mlx5: Introduce MACsec Connect-X offload hardware bits and structures Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 07/17] net/mlx5: Add MACsec offload Tx command support Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-14 14:39 ` sundeep subbaraya
2022-09-14 20:38 ` Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-15 5:14 ` sundeep subbaraya [this message]
2022-09-15 5:20 ` sundeep subbaraya
2022-09-15 8:02 ` Antoine Tenart
2022-09-19 9:01 ` sundeep subbaraya
2022-09-19 13:26 ` Raed Salem
2022-09-20 8:14 ` Antoine Tenart
2022-09-21 13:43 ` sundeep subbaraya
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 08/17] net/mlx5: Add MACsec Tx tables support to fs_core Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 09/17] net/mlx5e: Add MACsec TX steering rules Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 10/17] net/mlx5e: Implement MACsec Tx data path using MACsec skb_metadata_dst Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 11/17] net/mlx5e: Add MACsec offload Rx command support Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 12/17] net/mlx5: Add MACsec Rx tables support to fs_core Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 13/17] net/mlx5e: Add MACsec RX steering rules Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 14/17] net/mlx5e: Implement MACsec Rx data path using MACsec skb_metadata_dst Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 15/17] net/mlx5e: Add MACsec offload SecY support Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 16/17] net/mlx5e: Add MACsec stats support for Rx/Tx flows Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-06 5:21 ` [PATCH net-next V2 17/17] net/mlx5e: Add support to configure more than one macsec offload device Saeed Mahameed
2022-09-07 13:20 ` [PATCH net-next V2 00/17] Introduce MACsec skb_metadata_dst and mlx5 macsec offload patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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