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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] ip: skip IP checksum for skbs with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY set
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:33:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080822183320.1d8fbe34@speedy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808222224.32311.opurdila@ixiacom.com>

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:24:31 +0300
Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> wrote:

> 
> We are working on a completely in hardware LRO implementation and this patch 
> would simplify the hardware implementation. Is this acceptable?
> 
> --- a/net/ipv4/ip_input.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_input.c
> @@ -415,7 +415,8 @@ int ip_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packet_type *pt,
>  
>         iph = ip_hdr(skb);
>  
> -       if (unlikely(ip_fast_csum((u8 *)iph, iph->ihl)))
> +       if (!skb_csum_unnecessary(skb) &&
> +           unlikely(ip_fast_csum((u8 *)iph, iph->ihl)))
>                 goto inhdr_error;
>  
>         len = ntohs(iph->tot_len);
> 
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The overhead of the additional conditional might outweigh any benefit.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-22 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-22 19:24 [RFC] [PATCH] ip: skip IP checksum for skbs with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY set Octavian Purdila
2008-08-22 22:33 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-08-23  0:36   ` David Miller
2008-08-23  1:59     ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-23  5:15     ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-23  9:58       ` Octavian Purdila
2008-08-22 22:53 ` David Miller

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