From: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org,
Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] net: mana: report RX checksum offload for IPv6
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 09:28:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261109142856.779955-1-hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
The hardware validates TCP and UDP checksums for both IPv4 and IPv6 and
reports the result in rx_tcp_csum_succeed and rx_udp_csum_succeed.
However, mana_rx_skb() also requires rx_iphdr_csum_succeed before it
sets CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. That bit is only set for IPv4 (since IPv6
has no header checksum), so IPv6 TCP and UDP traffic is always
checksummed again in software.
So, only look at the L4 result. For IPv4 this makes no material
difference since CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY only covers the L4 checksum, and
ip_rcv_core() always verifies the IPv4 header checksum in software.
Between two Azure Standard_E16s_v6 VMs (VF enabled), IPv6 TCP and UDP
packets (including VXLAN over IPv6), now arrive with
CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY instead of CHECKSUM_NONE, so GRO no longer
checksums them in software. Calls to __skb_gro_checksum_complete() on
the receiver during an 8 second iperf3 run:
before after
TCP/IPv4, 12.2 Gbps 23 28
TCP/IPv6, 12.1 Gbps 8728419 25
UDP/IPv6, 1.5 Gbps 1071380 20
TCP/VXLAN/IPv6, 10.9 Gbps 7934373 18
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ca9c54d2d6a5 ("net: mana: Add a driver for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA)")
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
index e6d494df22e4..05bd4b4b8349 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
@@ -2179,10 +2179,9 @@ static void mana_rx_skb(void *buf_va, bool from_pool,
skb_checksum_none_assert(skb);
skb_record_rx_queue(skb, rxq_idx);
- if ((ndev->features & NETIF_F_RXCSUM) && cqe->rx_iphdr_csum_succeed) {
- if (cqe->rx_tcp_csum_succeed || cqe->rx_udp_csum_succeed)
- skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
- }
+ if ((ndev->features & NETIF_F_RXCSUM) &&
+ (cqe->rx_tcp_csum_succeed || cqe->rx_udp_csum_succeed))
+ skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
if (cqe->rx_hashtype != 0 && (ndev->features & NETIF_F_RXHASH)) {
if (cqe->rx_hashtype & MANA_HASH_L4)
--
2.56.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-09 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-09 14:28 Hamza Mahfooz [this message]
2026-11-10 14:29 ` [PATCH net] net: mana: report RX checksum offload for IPv6 sashiko-bot
2026-11-10 15:41 ` Hamza Mahfooz
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