Re: [PATCH net] Bonding: update bond device XFRM features based on current active slave

[Paolo Abeni]

On 9/18/24 10:35, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> XFRM offload is supported in active-backup mode. However, if the current
> active slave does not support it, we should disable it on bond device.
> Otherwise, ESP traffic may fail due to the downlink not supporting the
> feature.

Why would the excessive features exposed by the bond device will be a 
problem? later dev_queue_xmit() on the lower device should take care of 
needed xfrm offload in validate_xmit_xfrm(), no?

Let segmentation happening as late as possible is usually a win.

Cheers,

Paolo