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* [PATCH 1/6] offloading: Accept NETIF_F_HW_CSUM for all protocols.
@ 2011-01-09 16:23 Jesse Gross
  2011-01-09 16:23 ` [PATCH 2/6] offloading: Generalize netif_get_vlan_features() Jesse Gross
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From: Jesse Gross @ 2011-01-09 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev

We currently only have software fallback for one type of checksum: the
TCP/UDP one's complement.  This means that a protocol that uses hardware
offloading for a different type of checksum (FCoE, SCTP) must directly
check the device's features and do the right thing ahead of time.  By
the time we get to dev_can_checksum(), we're only deciding whether to
apply the one algorithm in software or hardware.  NETIF_F_HW_CSUM has the
same capabilities as the software version, so we should always use it if
present.  The primary advantage of this is multiply tagged vlans can use
hardware checksumming.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index a215269..d8befd0 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1734,7 +1734,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_device_attach);
 
 static bool can_checksum_protocol(unsigned long features, __be16 protocol)
 {
-	return ((features & NETIF_F_NO_CSUM) ||
+	return ((features & NETIF_F_GEN_CSUM) ||
 		((features & NETIF_F_V4_CSUM) &&
 		 protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP)) ||
 		((features & NETIF_F_V6_CSUM) &&
-- 
1.7.1


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2011-01-09 16:23 ` [PATCH 3/6] offloading: Pass features into netif_needs_gso() Jesse Gross
2011-01-09 16:23 ` [PATCH 4/6] offloading: Convert dev_gso_segment() to use precomputed features Jesse Gross
2011-01-09 16:23 ` [PATCH 5/6] offloading: Convert skb_need_linearize() " Jesse Gross
2011-01-09 16:23 ` [PATCH 6/6] offloading: Convert checksums to use centrally computed features Jesse Gross
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