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Commit 7adc91e0 authored by Tariq Toukan's avatar Tariq Toukan Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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net/tls: Multi-threaded calls to TX tls_dev_del


Multiple TLS device-offloaded contexts can be added in parallel via
concurrent calls to .tls_dev_add, while calls to .tls_dev_del are
sequential in tls_device_gc_task.

This is not a sustainable behavior. This creates a rate gap between add
and del operations (addition rate outperforms the deletion rate).  When
running for enough time, the TLS device resources could get exhausted,
failing to offload new connections.

Replace the single-threaded garbage collector work with a per-context
alternative, so they can be handled on several cores in parallel. Use
a new dedicated destruct workqueue for this.

Tested with mlx5 device:
Before: 22141 add/sec,   103 del/sec
After:  11684 add/sec, 11684 del/sec

Signed-off-by: default avatarTariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMaxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 113671b2
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