Messages in this thread | | | From | harish.vasudeva@amd ... | Subject | RE: Need some help with IP/TCP Checksum Offload | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:56:46 -0800 |
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i tried setting the NETIF_F_SG flag, but the stack still gives the right checksum.
Now, i have this 1 more question. If @ all the stack does offload chksum to the hardware, how will the driver come to know about this? Is there a per packet indication from the stack asking the driver TO-DO/OR-NOT-TO-DO chksum offloading?
thanx again HV
-----Original Message----- From: Ion Badulescu [mailto:ionut@cs.columbia.edu] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:01 PM To: Vasudeva, Harish Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Need some help with IP/TCP Checksum Offload
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:57:22 -0800, harish.vasudeva@amd.com wrote: > > I am trying to offload checksum calculation to my hardware. What i am doing in my driver (kernel 2.4.6) is : > > dev->features = NETIF_F_IP_CHECKSUM; > > Then, in my start_xmit( ) routine, i am parsing for the right headers & when i get the IP/TCP header, i print out the checksum & it is already the right checksum. When does the OS/Protocol offload this task? Am i missing something here?
I haven't looked at this in a long time, but at the time the checksum offloading support was introduced, the IP stack needed both NETIF_F_SG and NETIF_F_IP_CSUM in dev->features before it would start offloading.
The idea was that cksum support without scatter-gather support is useless, because the csum gets calculated essentially for free while copying the data to linearize the skbuf.
Ion
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