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From:   Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 8 Jun 2021 17:06:19 -0400
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Subject: Re: quic in-kernel implementation?
To:     Vadim Fedorenko <vfedorenko@novek.ru>
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        linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, smfrench@gmail.com,
        Leif Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>,
        Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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Hi Vadim,

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 4:59 PM Vadim Fedorenko <vfedorenko@novek.ru> wrote:
>
> On 07.06.2021 16:25, Alexander Ahring Oder Aring wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > as I notice there exists several quic user space implementations, is
> > there any interest or process of doing an in-kernel implementation? I
> > am asking because I would like to try out quic with an in-kernel
> > application protocol like DLM. Besides DLM I've heard that the SMB
> > community is also interested into such implementation.
> >
> > - Alex
> >
>
> Hi!
> I'm working on test in-kernel implementation of quic. It's based on the
> kernel-tls work and uses the same ULP approach to setup connection
> configuration. It's mostly about offload crypto operations of short header
> to kernel and use user-space implementation to deal with any other types
> of packets. Hope to test it till the end of June with some help from
> Jakub.

Thanks, sounds interesting. Does this allow the kernel to create a quic socket?

- Alex