[Intel-wired-lan] [net PATCH 0/2] Don't use lco_csum to compute IPv4 checksum

[Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>]

On Mon, 2016-11-28 at 10:42 -0500, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> When I implemented the GSO partial support in the Intel drivers I was
> using
> lco_csum to compute the checksum that we needed to plug into the IPv4
> checksum field in order to cancel out the data that was not a part of the
> IPv4 header.? However this didn't take into account that the transport
> offset might be pointing to the inner transport header.
> 
> Instead of using lco_csum I have just coded around it so that we can use
> the outer IP header plus the IP header length to determine where we need
> to
> start our checksum and then just call csum_partial ourselves.
> 
> This should fix the SIT issue reported on igb interfaces as well as
> simliar
> issues that would pop up on other Intel NICs.
> 
> ---
> 
> Alexander Duyck (2):
> ????? igb/igbvf: Don't use lco_csum to compute IPv4 checksum
> ????? ixgbe/ixgbevf: Don't use lco_csum to compute IPv4 checksum

Stephen, I have applied Alex's patches to my net-queue tree. ?Can you
confirm they resolve the bug seen?
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