From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:15:22 -0800
> On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 09:47 -0500, David Miller wrote: >> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@intel.com> >> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:42:18 -0500 >> >> > When I implemented the GSO partial support in the Intel drivers I was >> using >> > lco_csum to compute the checksum that we needed to plug into the IPv4 >> > checksum field in order to cancel out the data that was not a part of >> the >> > IPv4 header. However this didn't take into account that the transport >> > offset might be pointing to the inner transport header. >> > >> > Instead of using lco_csum I have just coded around it so that we can >> use >> > the outer IP header plus the IP header length to determine where we >> need to >> > start our checksum and then just call csum_partial ourselves. >> > >> > This should fix the SIT issue reported on igb interfaces as well as >> simliar >> > issues that would pop up on other Intel NICs. >> >> Jeff, are you going to send me a pull request with this stuff or would >> you be OK with my applying these directly to 'net'? > > Go ahead and apply those to your net tree, I do not want to hold this up. Ok, done, thanks Jeff.
