On Mon, 9 Mar 2026 11:55:17 +0200 Tariq Toukan wrote:

Report TX checksum statistics via the netdev queue stats API by mapping
the existing csum_none and csum_partial counters to the csum_none and
needs_csum fields.

      -
        name: tx-needs-csum
        doc: |
          Number of packets that required the device to calculate the checksum.
          This counter includes the number of GSO wire packets for which device
          calculated the L4 checksum.
        type: uint

Looking at drivers currently implementing this it seems like the idea
was to avoid having to increment two counters in the drivers, given
that TSO always implies csum offload