[PATCH 0/3] Add packet-mode ESP offload for Airoha/EIP93
From: Jihong Min <hidden>
Date: 2026-05-23 12:15:52
Also in:
linux-crypto, linux-mediatek, lkml, netdev
This series adds the missing plumbing for ESP offload engines that
operate on whole ESP packets instead of only exposing AES/HMAC through
the crypto API AEAD interface.
The normal ESP software path can already call into accelerated AEAD
algorithms, but packet-mode engines such as EIP93 can also generate and
consume ESP packet framing: padding, pad length, next header and ICV.
That needs a slightly different XFRM offload contract so the netdev
driver can hand the skb to a packet backend rather than trying to make
hardware fit the software trailer layout.
Patch 1 extends the ESP offload infrastructure for packet engines while
preserving the existing behavior for drivers that do not opt in.
Patch 2 exposes an EIP93 ESP packet backend for encapsulation and
decapsulation.
Patch 3 wires Airoha Ethernet GDM netdevs and DSA user ports to that
backend through xfrmdev_ops. ESP GSO and ESP TX checksum offload remain
disabled.
Runtime testing was done on a Gemtek W1700K2 running OpenWrt with the
same changes applied on top of a 6.18.31-based kernel.
Test parameters:
- Static IPv4 transport-mode XFRM SAs between the AP and host.
- ESP transform: auth hmac(sha1), enc cbc(aes) with a 128-bit AES key.
- iperf3 TCP test, AP as client and host as server:
iperf3 -c <host_ip> -P 4 -t 10
- The host always used normal Linux XFRM software processing.
- With AP ESP offload disabled, the AP also used the Linux XFRM
software path; in this setup, EIP93-backed AEAD crypto was still
available to that path.
Network-relevant test setup:
- AP: Gemtek W1700K2, Airoha AN7581/EN7581, 4x Arm Cortex-A53 at
1.4 GHz, 2 GiB RAM, airoha_eth wan (GDM2) netdev, 10Gb/s full-duplex,
MTU 9200, EIP93 crypto and IPsec packet engine present.
- Host: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, 16 cores/32 threads, Open vSwitch,
MTU 9978, backed by a ConnectX-6 Dx 10Gb/s full-duplex link.
AP to host iperf3 result:
AP offload Sender Receiver Retransmits
on 918.2 Mbit/s 913.6 Mbit/s 0
off 782.4 Mbit/s 778.6 Mbit/s 3569
This is a 17.3% receiver-side throughput improvement for the AP TX ESP
path in this setup, with retransmits eliminated in the offloaded run.
Jihong Min (3):
xfrm: extend ESP offload infrastructure for packet engines
crypto: inside-secure: add EIP93 ESP packet backend
net: airoha: add EIP93-backed ESP XFRM offload
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
drivers/crypto/inside-secure/eip93/Kconfig | 10 +
drivers/crypto/inside-secure/eip93/Makefile | 1 +
.../crypto/inside-secure/eip93/eip93-ipsec.c | 1413 ++++++++++++++++
.../crypto/inside-secure/eip93/eip93-main.c | 69 +-
.../crypto/inside-secure/eip93/eip93-main.h | 38 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/Kconfig | 11 +
drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c | 51 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.h | 69 +
drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_xfrm.c | 1474 +++++++++++++++++
include/crypto/eip93-ipsec.h | 132 ++
include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 +
include/net/xfrm.h | 8 +-
net/ipv4/esp4.c | 6 +-
net/ipv4/esp4_offload.c | 29 +-
net/ipv6/esp6.c | 6 +-
net/ipv6/esp6_offload.c | 29 +-
18 files changed, 3324 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/crypto/inside-secure/eip93/eip93-ipsec.c
create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_xfrm.c
create mode 100644 include/crypto/eip93-ipsec.h
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