> -----Original Message----- > From: Intel-wired-lan <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Michal Swiatkowski > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 12:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Nguyen, Anthony L > <[email protected]>; Kitszel, Przemyslaw > <[email protected]>; Loktionov, > Aleksandr <[email protected]>; Michal Swiatkowski > <[email protected]> > Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-net v1 2/2] ice: use NETIF_F_HW_CSUM > instead of IP/IPV6 > > The hardware is capable of calculating checksum for IPV6 packets with > extension header. To not drop > such packets switch from IP/IPV6 checksum to HW_CSUM. > > HW_CSUM is also used in previous generation (i40e). > > Previously HW_CSUM was used to indicate that hardware supports general > checksum. Drop it assuming > that if the hardware supports it, it is used. > > Disabling offload for E830 in case of TSO isn't needed anymore as the check > for TSO is done in Tx path > just before preparation of the special GCS descriptor. > > The commit from Fixes didn't introduce a bug, it just shown that the driver > is doing sth wrong with the > checksum features. > > Suggested-by: Jakub Ramaseuski <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <[email protected]> > Fixes: 04c20a9356f2 ("net: skip offload for NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM if ipv6 header > contains extension") > Signed-off-by: Michal Swiatkowski <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 21 +-------------------- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 20 deletions(-)
Tested-by: Alexander Nowlin <[email protected]>
