Re: [PATCH] Network Checksum Removal

[Bin Ren <bin.ren@gmail.com>]

It seems to break the interdomain ssh and nfs on my machine. Digging
for reasons.

- Bin

On 5/23/05, Andrew Theurer <habanero@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > I've checked in a modified version of your patch that hopefully deals
> > with propagating checksum information in both directions across a
> > virtual bridge or router. I replaced your skb flags with two new ones
> > -- proto_csum_blank and proto_csum_valid.
> >
> > The former indicates that the protocol-level checksum needs filling
> > in. This is not a problem for local processing, but the flag is
> > picked up before sending to a physical interface and fixed up.
> >
> > The latter indicates that the proto-level checksum has been validated
> > since arrival at localhost (*or* that the packet originated from a
> > domU on localhost). This flag survives crossing a bridge/router so we
> > can trust it when deciding if checksum validation is required.
> >
> > I'll push the patch to the bkbits repository just as soon as bkbits
> > rematerialises. :-)
> >
> > If you have any performance or stress tests that you were using to
> > test checksum offloading, it would be great to find out how they
> > perform on the checked-in version!
> 
> Now that BK is up, I'll run some netperf tests before/after that
> changeset and see what we get.
> 
> -Andrew
> 
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