Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio_net: checksum offloading handling fix
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2024-06-19 01:15:18
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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2024-06-19 01:15:18
Also in:
virtualization
On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:09:02 +0800 Heng Qi wrote:
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(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. Just ignore VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID if user cleared NETIF_F_RXCSUM. I know some paranoid workloads which do actually want the kernel to calculate the checksum.