Re: Checksum offload queries

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>]

On 12/09/15 at 08:08am, Tom Herbert wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> wrote:
> > If I understood Edward correctly, his proposal would be for the
> > card to provide both, the csum as for CHECKSUM_COMPLETE plus the
> > validation yes/no hint. It would be up to the kernel to decide
> > whether to validate itself or trust the card.
> >
> > I'm all in favour CHECKSUM_COMPLETE as the only way to go but
> > we should be aware that it depends on the penetration of RCO in
> > hardware VTEPs.
> 
> Thomas, I don't understand what you are saying here. CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
> is an interface for drivers providing the computed checksum of a
> packet on receive, how is this dependent on any use case or any other
> mechanisms?

I'm referring to the overall change which comes with a pure
CHECSUM_COMPLETE model which would forbid a NIC to do automatic nested
checksum filling even if untold. RCO solves that to some extent but
only if RCO is widely supported. I'm not aware of anybody relying on
the performance of such hardware yet so I doubt we would create a
performance regression.