Re: [PATCH net-next 1/6] net/mlx5: HWS, Enable IPSec hardware offload in legacy mode

[Jianbo Liu <jianbol@nvidia.com>]

On 7/14/2025 2:43 PM, Michal Swiatkowski wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 08:39:40AM +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
>> From: Lama Kayal <lkayal@nvidia.com>
>>
>> IPSec hardware offload in legacy mode should not be affected by the
>> steering mode, hence it should also work properly with hmfs mode.
> 
> What about dmfs mode? I am not sure, if you didn't remove it because it
> is still needed or just forgot about removing it.
>

It is still needed.
We support packet offload for all steering modes in legacy, and only 
dmfs in switchdev. This is the logic we added before:

             dmfs    smfs
legacy       Y       Y
switchdev    Y       N

Now we support hmfs. It is the same as smfs. So the table becomes:
             dmfs    smfs   hmfs
legacy       Y       Y      Y
switchdev    Y       N      N

Instead of adding "mdev->priv.steering->mode == 
MLX5_FLOW_STEERING_MODE_HMFS", We removed "mdev->priv.steering->mode == 
MLX5_FLOW_STEERING_MODE_SMFS", and the code is simpler and clean.


> In case it is ok as it is:
> Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com>
>

Yes, it's ok. Thanks for the review.

Jianbo

> Thanks
> 
>>
>> Remove steering mode validation when calculating the cap for packet
>> offload, this will also enable the missing cap MLX5_IPSEC_CAP_PRIO
>> needed for crypto offload.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lama Kayal <lkayal@nvidia.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbol@nvidia.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
>> ---
>>   .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec_offload.c   | 3 +--
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec_offload.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec_offload.c
>> index 820debf3fbbf..ef7322d381af 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec_offload.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec_offload.c
>> @@ -42,8 +42,7 @@ u32 mlx5_ipsec_device_caps(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev)
>>   
>>   	if (MLX5_CAP_IPSEC(mdev, ipsec_full_offload) &&
>>   	    (mdev->priv.steering->mode == MLX5_FLOW_STEERING_MODE_DMFS ||
>> -	     (mdev->priv.steering->mode == MLX5_FLOW_STEERING_MODE_SMFS &&
>> -	     is_mdev_legacy_mode(mdev)))) {
>> +	     is_mdev_legacy_mode(mdev))) {
>>   		if (MLX5_CAP_FLOWTABLE_NIC_TX(mdev,
>>   					      reformat_add_esp_trasport) &&
>>   		    MLX5_CAP_FLOWTABLE_NIC_RX(mdev,
>> -- 
>> 2.40.1
>>
>