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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute] vxlan: Add support for remote checksum offload
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 11:54:21 -0800
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On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:23:43 -0800
Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> wrote:

> This patch adds support to remote checksum checksum offload
> to VXLAN. This patch adds remcsumtx and remcsumrx to ip vxlan
> configuration to enable remote checksum offload for transmit
> and receive on the VXLAN tunnel.
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-herbert-vxlan-rco-00
> 
> Example:
> 
> ip link add name vxlan0 type vxlan id 42 group 239.1.1.1 dev eth0 \
>     udpcsum remcsumtx remcsumrx
> 
> Testing:
> 
> Ran single netperf over mlnx4 to illustrate the effest:
> 
> - Without RCO (UDP csum set to zero)
>   4335.99 Mbps
> - With RCO enabled
>   7661.81 Mbps
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>

Applied, thanks