Re: [for-next 4/6] net/mlx5: FPGA, Add basic support for Innova

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 03:44:53PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 03:01:51PM -0400, David Miller wrote:

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From: Alexei Starovoitov <redacted>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 11:55:33 -0700

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If in the future mlx will make it into the nic in a way that
encryption shares all memory management logic and there is no fpga
at all then it indeed will be similar to tc offload. Right now it's
not and needs different sw architecture.

If the visible effect is identical, I fundamentally disagree with you.

I don't care if there is a frog sitting on the PHY that transforms
the packets, it's all the same if the visible behavior is identical.

that frog is a good example why we disagree.
I need to check the pulse of that frog and last time it ate.

It is probably over-engineered for a single frog, but maybe you could
use a modified RFC 2795?

    Andrew