Netdev 0x14 - kTLS HW offload
Channel: netdevconf
Date: 2020-10-09

Speakers: Tariq Toukan, Bar Tuaf, Tal Gilboa

More info: https://netdevconf.info/0x14/session.html?talk-kTLS-HW-offload-implementation-and-performance-gains

Date: Friday, August 14, 2020

In this TLS talk, Bar Tuaf discusses offloading of TLS to the NIC.
He starts by reviewing the life cycle of a HW
offloaded kTLS connection and the driver-HW interaction
in order to support it.

Bar then will present their experiments where NginX TLS
activity is offloaded to the Mellanox ConnectX-6Dx NIC
(using mlx5e driver). And finally their experimental results
which show significant performance speed-up gained by offloading
kTLS operations to the HW.