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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: postpone the checksum calculation
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:39:42 +0200
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Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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To: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
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Changli Gao wrote:
> netfilter: postpone the checksum calculation.
>
> postpone the checksum calculation, then if the output NIC supports checksum
> offloading, we can utlize it. And though the output NIC doesn't support
> checksum offloading, but we'll mangle this packet, this can free us from
> updating the checksum, as the checksum calculation occurs later.

Applied, thanks.