From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: raz ben jehuda Subject: user space checksum Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 09:51:48 +0300 Message-ID: <1116744708.3021.12.camel@raz-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: netdev@oss.sgi.com Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I do not know if this was ever suggested.so i'll try any way. Why not give the user the chance to supply the kernel/card with the checksums instead of having the kernel/network card do the work ? This is because a user is aware to the data he sends and he can optimize the data checksum calculations more than anyone else. for instance a web server sends its html pages, which are static data. it can pre-calculate the checksums. Anyone ? -- Raz Long Live The Penguin