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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@Voltaire.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add raw backend
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:06:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A54B5E1.8090001@Voltaire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090707144932.GA8153@redhat.com>

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 05:45:39PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

>>> It might be a good idea to request aux data and verify that checksum is set, 
>>> calculate it if not. this will make it possible to bind to a local device as well.

>> I am still not sure to follow the checksum reporting of the af_packet kernel code

> See comment in qemu-kvm about dhclient as an example.

yes, some sort of "host software checksum offload" when using packet socket make sense. I wasn't sure when the af_packet kernel code does report on "checksum okay", it only checks for "ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL".

Or.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-08 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-01 15:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add raw backend Or Gerlitz
2009-07-01 16:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-02 12:25   ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-03  2:39     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-07 13:33       ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-07 14:57         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-08 14:45           ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-14 13:54             ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-15 20:38             ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 21:06               ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 21:52                 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-16  8:29               ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-20 14:13               ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add raw backend - some performance measurements Or Gerlitz
2009-07-20 15:53                 ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-20 18:20                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-21  1:46                     ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-21  7:03                   ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-21  7:25                     ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-21 10:17                       ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-21 10:27                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-21 11:05                         ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-21 12:01                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-21 12:14                             ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-21 13:41                               ` Or Gerlitz
     [not found] ` <5b31733c0907011250i7afcdbcdnb844290de4ad64f2@mail.gmail.com>
2009-07-02 12:08   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add raw backend Or Gerlitz
2009-07-02 15:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-07 14:45   ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-07 14:49     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-08 14:46       ` Or Gerlitz
2009-07-08 15:06       ` Or Gerlitz [this message]

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