From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NET]: Allow partial checksums to be forwarded
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:45:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4608A152.1060501@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070327043648.GA21558@gondor.apana.org.au>
Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hi Dave:
>
> Looks like I forgot to finish the checksum stuff for Xen last time around.
>
> [NET]: Allow partial checksums to be forwarded
>
> Right now Xen has a horrible hack that lets it forward packets with
> partial checksums. One of the reasons that CHECKSUM_PARTIAL was added
> is so that we can get rid of this hack (where it creates an extra bit
> in the skbuff to essentially mirror ip_summed without being destroyed
> by the forwarding code).
>
> So here is the patch that lets us get rid of the hack by preserving
> CHECKSUM_PARTIAL on forwarded packets.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
>
> Cheers,
>
Looks okay.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-27 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-27 4:36 [NET]: Allow partial checksums to be forwarded Herbert Xu
2007-03-27 4:45 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-03-27 5:11 ` Herbert Xu
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