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In conjunction with crypto offload [1], removing the ESP trailer by hardware can potentially improve the performance by avoiding (1) a cache miss incurred by reading the nexthdr field and (2) the necessity to calculate the csum value of the trailer in order to keep skb->csum valid. This patch introduces the changes to the xfrm stack and merely serves as an infrastructure. Subsequent patch to mlx5 driver will put this to a good use. [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg175733.html Signed-off-by: Yossi Kuperman <yossiku@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
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