On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 18:17 -0700, Ed Cashin wrote:
> In order for the network layer to see that AoE requires
> no checksumming in a generic way, packets should be marked
> CHECKSUM_NONE.
Which they are by default.
> Rather than relying on the current behavior of alloc_skb,
> this change causes the aoe driver to explicitly mark its
> packets as requiring no checksum.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecas...@coraid.com>
> ---
> drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
> index de0435e..0ba1b63 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ new_skb(ulong len)
> skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
> skb_reset_network_header(skb);
> skb->protocol = __constant_htons(ETH_P_AOE);
> + skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
Can be written as:
skb_checksum_none_assert(skb);
if you really want to be sure.
Ben.
> }
> return skb;
> }
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