Re: [RFC] IPV6 checksum offloading in network devices
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2007-06-27 07:44:34
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2007-06-27 07:44:34
From: Stephen Hemminger <redacted> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:00:34 -0700
This is better. There is still a possiblity when a device allows IPV6 and not IPV4 checksumming, that the checksum will be done in the fixup code in dev_queue_xmit. The existing model for checksum offload does not correctly handle devices that can offload IPV4 and IPV6 only. The NETIF_F_HW_CSUM flag implies device can do any arbitrary protocol. This patch: * adds NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM for those devices * fixes bnx2 and tg3 devices that need it * add NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM to ipv6 output (incl GSO) * fixes assumptions about NETIF_F_ALL_CSUM in nat * adjusts bridge union of checksumming computation
I've applied this to net-2.6.23, we can back it out or rework it if there are problems. Several of these checksum feature tests are getting out of hand :-)