Re: [PATCH] crypto: aesni-intel - avoid IPsec re-ordering

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Raj Ammanur <rammanur@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> First, I would like to report that we are also seeing problem where IPSec
> packets are getting queued up to the workqueue for async processing because
> of the FPU not being available. Since there are also a lot of input pkts, by the
> time xfrm_input() is invoked again after the async operation is completed, the
> IPsec pkts are either out of sequence or out of the replay window, since the
> replay window has advanced. We are using IPSec tunnel between two
> switches connected over a Long Fat Network and have sender and receiver
> servers connected to the two ends of the tunnel. Because of  the TCP
> receiver receiving  pkts either out of order or not receiving pkts because of
> dropped pkts, this is causing significant drop in TCP throughtput on Long Fat
> Networks, where  the network latency is high.

Thanks for the reminder.  I will try to post a patch for this soon.

Cheers,
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