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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: Do not include padding in TCP GRO checksum
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:24:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528909E4.1000100@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131117031710.GA18254@gondor.apana.org.au>

On 11/16/2013 07:17 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 09:02:34AM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> That being the case though, why don't we set the flush flag on detecting
>> a bad checksum and hand it off to tcp_gro_receive instead of returning
>> NULL?  It seems like it would be in our interest to flush the flow and
>> then report the bad checksum instead of keeping the flow and handing off
>> the bad checksum to the stack.
> Because if the TCP checksum is wrong then it may belong to a
> different flow.
>
> Cheers,

It seems like it would be much more likely that a checksum error
occuring with a padded frame would corrupt the flow identifying data
then one that isn't padded.

I suppose it doesn't really matter though since checksum errors are
probably not going to be all that common of a case to deal with anyway.

Thanks,

Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-17 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-15 23:00 [PATCH v3] net: Do not include padding in TCP GRO checksum Alexander Duyck
2013-11-16  0:47 ` Herbert Xu
2013-11-16  1:34   ` David Miller
2013-11-16  1:43     ` Herbert Xu
2013-11-16  2:11       ` David Miller
2013-11-16  1:53   ` Herbert Xu
2013-11-16  4:10     ` Alexander Duyck
2013-11-16  6:46       ` Herbert Xu
2013-11-16  7:23         ` Herbert Xu
2013-11-16 17:02         ` Alexander Duyck
2013-11-17  3:17           ` Herbert Xu
2013-11-17 18:24             ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
2013-11-18  0:03               ` Herbert Xu
2013-11-18 17:43         ` Alexander Duyck
2013-11-21 18:35           ` David Miller
2013-11-22  2:30             ` Herbert Xu
2013-11-22  2:31               ` [1/2] gro: Only verify TCP checksums for candidates Herbert Xu
2013-11-22  5:55                 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-11-23 22:47                   ` David Miller
2013-11-22  2:32               ` [2/2] gro: Clean up tcpX_gro_receive checksum verification Herbert Xu
2013-11-22  5:58                 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-11-23 22:47                   ` David Miller

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