> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
> Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2018 6:31 AM
> To: Vakul Garg <vakul.g...@nxp.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; bor...@mellanox.com;
> avia...@mellanox.com; davejwat...@fb.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net/tls: Add support for async decryption of
> tls records
> 
> From: Vakul Garg <vakul.g...@nxp.com>
> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:26:55 +0530
> 
> > When tls records are decrypted using asynchronous acclerators such as
> > NXP CAAM engine, the crypto apis return -EINPROGRESS. Presently, on
> > getting -EINPROGRESS, the tls record processing stops till the time
> > the crypto accelerator finishes off and returns the result. This
> > incurs a context switch and is not an efficient way of accessing the
> > crypto accelerators. Crypto accelerators work efficient when they are
> > queued with multiple crypto jobs without having to wait for the
> > previous ones to complete.
> >
> > The patch submits multiple crypto requests without having to wait for
> > for previous ones to complete. This has been implemented for records
> > which are decrypted in zero-copy mode. At the end of recvmsg(), we
> > wait for all the asynchronous decryption requests to complete.
> >
> > The references to records which have been sent for async decryption
> > are dropped. For cases where record decryption is not possible in
> > zero-copy mode, asynchronous decryption is not used and we wait for
> > decryption crypto api to complete.
> >
> > For crypto requests executing in async fashion, the memory for
> > aead_request, sglists and skb etc is freed from the decryption
> > completion handler. The decryption completion handler wakesup the
> > sleeping user context when recvmsg() flags that it has done sending
> > all the decryption requests and there are no more decryption requests
> > pending to be completed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vakul Garg <vakul.g...@nxp.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Dave Watson <davejwat...@fb.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes since v1:
> >     - Simplified recvmsg() so to drop reference to skb in case it
> >       was submimtted for async decryption.
> >     - Modified tls_sw_advance_skb() to handle case when input skb is
> >       NULL.
> 
> Applied.

I do not find this patch in tree yet. 
Can you please check? Thanks and Regards.

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