Re: [net PATCH 0/2] Don't use lco_csum to compute IPv4 checksum

[Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>]

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On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 09:47 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:42:18 -0500
> 
> > When I implemented the GSO partial support in the Intel drivers I was
> using
> > lco_csum to compute the checksum that we needed to plug into the IPv4
> > checksum field in order to cancel out the data that was not a part of
> the
> > IPv4 header.  However this didn't take into account that the transport
> > offset might be pointing to the inner transport header.
> > 
> > Instead of using lco_csum I have just coded around it so that we can
> use
> > the outer IP header plus the IP header length to determine where we
> need to
> > start our checksum and then just call csum_partial ourselves.
> > 
> > This should fix the SIT issue reported on igb interfaces as well as
> simliar
> > issues that would pop up on other Intel NICs.
> 
> Jeff, are you going to send me a pull request with this stuff or would
> you be OK with my applying these directly to 'net'?

Go ahead and apply those to your net tree, I do not want to hold this up.

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