Re: [Ocf-linux-users] OCF compatible driver for HiFN Xcellerator Card 8155HXL-G

[hiren j. <jos...@gm...>]

Thank you for the much awaited answer!

>> So I meant to use these features to completely offload
>> the packet protocol processing (not just crypto operations)
>> by integrating the HiFN APIs with Openswan(KLIPS).
>
> That will be a bit of work and not much that OCF has done to date will
> help you here.  The state machine in KLIPS which came with the OCF
> patches should be a good start to doing more IPSec offloading, at least
> it weas created with that in mind at some point in the future :-)

>> Considering the complete protocol processing offloading,
>> I will have to find new hook points in KLIPS.
>
> Yes,  the TX and RX state machine should give you most of those hooks.
> You should be able to do some like:
>
>        init state
>        (hand off)
>        skip to final state

Thanks for pointing to both these things.
However currently I am stuck as the HiFN driver is written for
linux-2.4.x and I use linux-2.6.x. :-(

Thanks again,
hiren