From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: therbert@google.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vxlan: Fix to enable UDP checksums on interface
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 22:00:15 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141106.220015.627911044833896569.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415325961-23053-1-git-send-email-therbert@google.com>
From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:06:01 -0800
> Add definition to vxlan nla_policy for UDP checksum. This is necessary
> to enable UDP checksums on VXLAN.
>
> In some instances, enabling UDP checksums can improve performance on
> receive for devices that return legacy checksum-unnecessary for UDP/IP.
> Also, UDP checksum provides some protection against VNI corruption.
>
> Testing:
...
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Applied, thanks Tom.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-07 3:00 UTC|newest]
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2014-11-07 2:06 [PATCH net-next] vxlan: Fix to enable UDP checksums on interface Tom Herbert
2014-11-07 3:00 ` David Miller [this message]
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