On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:15:16 -0700, Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:09:02 +0800 Heng Qi wrote:
> > > (Should we manually do checksum if RXCUSM is disabled?)
> > >   
> > 
> > Currently we do not allow RXCUSM to be disabled.
> 
> You don't have to disable checksuming in the device.

Yes, it is up to the device itself to decide whether to validate checksum.
What I mean is that we don't allow users to disable the driver's
NETIF_F_RXCSUM flag.

> Just ignore VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID if user cleared NETIF_F_RXCSUM.

Right.

Thanks.

> I know some paranoid workloads which do actually want the kernel to
> calculate the checksum.
> 

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