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List:       linux-fpga
Subject:    RE: [for-next 4/6] net/mlx5: FPGA, Add basic support for Innova
From:       Ilan Tayari <ilant () mellanox ! com>
Date:       2017-05-29 16:09:06
Message-ID: AM4PR0501MB19409139227E11A4A7F82F0FDBF30 () AM4PR0501MB1940 ! eurprd05 ! prod ! outlook ! com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org]
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com]
> > Subject: Re: [for-next 4/6] net/mlx5: FPGA, Add basic support for Innova
> >
> > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 03:58:33PM +0000, Ilan Tayari wrote:
> > > > From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com]
> > > > Subject: Re: [for-next 4/6] net/mlx5: FPGA, Add basic support for
> > Innova
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 07:22:27AM +0000, Ilan Tayari wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > This is neither PCI-bar mapped, nor mailbox command.
> > > > > The FPGA is indeed a bump-on-the-wire.
> > > > > (It has I2C to the CX4 chip, but that is for debug purposes, and
> too
> > > > slow
> > > > > to perform real programming)
> > > >
> > > > Wait.. So if it truely has nothing to do with the existing mellanox
> > > > driver, then nothing more than the fpga loader should be in the mlx5
> > > > directory?
> > >
> > > True, except in specific cases when the FPGA may mangle the packets in
> > > a way that the netdevice configures, and the driver needs to adapt the
> > > data path.
> >
> > > Such is the case of IPSec and TLS offloads.
> > > Those are tied to the mlx5 Ethernet driver (isolated with a kconfig).
> >
> > But there is nothing stopping this sort of FPGA mangling logic being
> > downstream of any NIC, Mellanox is just the first to do this.
> >
> > I think you'd be better to add something to the net stack to model
> > this post-nic mangling hardware, than trying to hide it in a driver.
> 
> Of course.
> 
> For IPSec, this is already in the kernel.
> See this patchset:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg162876.html

Sorry, I pointed at the RFC by mistake.

This is the relevant pull request:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/752707/

> 
> For TLS, Dave Watson is working with our guys to add it.
> 
> >
> > Jason
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