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Subject: Re: [PATCH] veth: remove hardware checksum feature
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On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 18:54 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> Maybe we should just do the csum calc in the kernel if packet is
> about to be sent up to user-space via af_packet?  I think that
> would keep the expected behaviour, and hopefully not loose any of the performance
> benefits for cases where the packet never leaves the kernel?

I think you are rephrasing what I suggested ;)

I'll send a patch asap, unless someone beats me.