From: Bagas Sanjaya Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 01:50:24 +0000 (+0700) Subject: Documentation: xfrm_device: Separate hardware offload sublists X-Git-Tag: v6.19-rc1~170^2~135^2~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=840188d276a34e8883fd4b64a4a39f7b3eec0f28;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git Documentation: xfrm_device: Separate hardware offload sublists Sublists of hardware offload type lists are rendered in combined paragraph due to lack of separator from their parent list. Add it. Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Tested-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert --- diff --git a/Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.rst b/Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.rst index 86db3f42552dd..b0d85a5f57d1d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/xfrm_device.rst @@ -20,11 +20,15 @@ can radically increase throughput and decrease CPU utilization. The XFRM Device interface allows NIC drivers to offer to the stack access to the hardware offload. -Right now, there are two types of hardware offload that kernel supports. +Right now, there are two types of hardware offload that kernel supports: + * IPsec crypto offload: + * NIC performs encrypt/decrypt * Kernel does everything else + * IPsec packet offload: + * NIC performs encrypt/decrypt * NIC does encapsulation * Kernel and NIC have SA and policy in-sync