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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2021-02-12 13:36:43 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2021-02-12 13:36:43 +0100 |
commit | a3251c1a36f595046bea03935ebe37a1e1f1f1d7 (patch) | |
tree | 14b51f8bf1d7e1bb35697cb4704255b51b15baa9 /Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst | |
parent | 72f40a2823d6e16229ab58b898c6f22044e5222f (diff) | |
parent | ab234a260b1f625b26cbefa93ca365b0ae66df33 (diff) | |
download | linux-a3251c1a36f595046bea03935ebe37a1e1f1f1d7.tar.bz2 |
Merge branch 'x86/paravirt' into x86/entry
Merge in the recent paravirt changes to resolve conflicts caused
by objtool annotations.
Conflicts:
arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst b/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst index 0f55c6d540f9..5f0dea3d571e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/tls-offload.rst @@ -530,7 +530,10 @@ TLS device feature flags only control adding of new TLS connection offloads, old connections will remain active after flags are cleared. TLS encryption cannot be offloaded to devices without checksum calculation -offload. Hence, TLS TX device feature flag requires NETIF_F_HW_CSUM being set. +offload. Hence, TLS TX device feature flag requires TX csum offload being set. Disabling the latter implies clearing the former. Disabling TX checksum offload should not affect old connections, and drivers should make sure checksum calculation does not break for them. +Similarly, device-offloaded TLS decryption implies doing RXCSUM. If the user +does not want to enable RX csum offload, TLS RX device feature is disabled +as well. |