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Revision v2 of 2 in this series.

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  1. v1 [diff vs current]
  2. v2 current

[PATCH v2 0/4] net: Checksum offload changes - Part IV

From: Tom Herbert <hidden>
Date: 2014-06-11 01:54:05

I am working on overhauling RX checksum offload. Goals of this effort
are:

- Specify what exactly it means when driver returns CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
- Preserve CHECKSUM_COMPLETE through encapsulation layers
- Don't do skb_checksum more than once per packet
- Unify GRO and non-GRO csum verification as much as possible
- Unify the checksum functions (checksum_init)
- Simply code

What is in this fourth patch set:

- Preserve CHECKSUM_COMPLETE instead of changing it to
  CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. This allows correct reuse in validating multiple
  csums in a packet.
- When SW needs to compute the packet checksum, save it as
  CHECKSUM_COMPLETE. Also mark that checksum was compute by SW.
- Add skb_gro_postpull_rcsum to udp and vxlan to make GRO work with
  CHECKSUM_COMPLETE.

v2: Removed patch setting skb_encapsulation when validating checksum
    in tcp_gro_receive

Please review carefully and test if possible, mucking with basic
checksum functions is always a little precarious :-)
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