On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:22:17PM +0300, Nick Patavalis wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:09:54AM -0700, Bluesea wrote:
> > I've a question, does the Linux TCP/IP stack calculate
> > the pseudo-header checksum if skb->ip_summed =
> > CHECKSUM_HW, or leave it to the driver?
>
> Assuming that you are referring to the transmit path, and judging from
> the impementation of the e100 driver, it seems that the kernel has
> performed no checksum calculation if ip_summed == CHECKSUM_HW. Either
> the hardware or the driver has to do it. In the case of e100, the
> driver does the pseudo-header checksum calculation and the hardware
> does the rest.
>
While this is what happens in the e100 driver, the kernel *does* seem
to calculate the *pseudo-header checksum* even in the "skb->ip_summed
== CHECKSUM_HW" case. For TCP packets this is done in
"net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:tcp_v4_send_check()"
<reformated>
/* This routine computes an IPv4 TCP checksum. */
void tcp_v4_send_check(struct sock *sk, struct tcphdr *th, int len,
struct sk_buff *skb)
{
if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_HW) {
th->check = ~tcp_v4_check(th, len, sk->saddr, sk->daddr, 0);
skb->csum = offsetof(struct tcphdr, check);
} else {
th->check = tcp_v4_check(th, len, sk->saddr, sk->daddr,
csum_partial((char *)th,
th->doff<<2, skb->csum));
}
}
which is called via the "ipv4_specific" jumptable-structure
initialized in: "net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:"
struct tcp_func ipv4_specific = {
ip_queue_xmit,
tcp_v4_send_check,
tcp_v4_rebuild_header,
Why the e100 driver recalculates the pseude-header checksum, I don't
know.
/npat
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