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From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: optimize echo reply checksum calculation
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:04:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4554CD40.3030801@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061110182031.GO29920@ftp.linux.org.uk>

Al Viro wrote:
> so -= 1 is broken even on ia64 and it's *always* broken on big-endian
> boxen.

It's not broken in ia64, I've tested that, just don't have an x86 for 
testing right now.  Can you please apply these changes and prove it's 
broken?  This little trick has been done in other UNIXes for years 
without any problems.

-Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-10 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-08 22:13 why do we mangle checksums for v6 ICMP? Al Viro
2006-11-08 22:28 ` Al Viro
2006-11-09 17:32 ` Brian Haley
2006-11-09 23:14   ` David Miller
2006-11-10 16:24     ` [PATCH] IPv6: only modify checksum for UDP Brian Haley
2006-11-10 17:54       ` David Stevens
2006-11-14  0:50         ` David Miller
2006-11-14  1:18           ` Al Viro
2006-11-14  1:44           ` David Stevens
2006-11-14  1:52             ` Al Viro
2006-11-10 22:55       ` David Miller
2006-11-10 23:17         ` Nivedita Singhvi
2006-11-10 23:26           ` David Miller
2006-11-10 23:36             ` Nivedita Singhvi
2006-11-12  1:30             ` Brian Haley
2006-11-10 16:25     ` [PATCH] IPv6: optimize echo reply checksum calculation Brian Haley
2006-11-10 17:34       ` Al Viro
2006-11-10 17:51         ` Brian Haley
2006-11-10 18:05           ` Al Viro
2006-11-10 18:20             ` Al Viro
2006-11-10 19:04               ` Brian Haley [this message]
2006-11-10 19:17                 ` Al Viro
2006-11-10 21:06                   ` Brian Haley
2006-11-11  1:45                     ` Al Viro
2006-11-11 18:07     ` why do we mangle checksums for v6 ICMP? Bill Fink
2006-11-13  7:04       ` David Miller

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