Re: [RFC 0/2] Add Rx checksum offload support

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On 11/23/21 4:31 PM, Biju Das wrote:

> TOE has hw support for calculating IP header checkum for IPV4 and
> TCP/UDP/ICMP checksum for both IPV4 and IPV6.
> 
> This patch series aims to adds Rx checksum offload supported by TOE.
> 
> For RX, The result of checksum calculation is attached to last 4byte
> of ethernet frames. First 2bytes is result of IPV4 header checksum 
> and next 2 bytes is TCP/UDP/ICMP.
> 
> if frame does not have error "0000" attached to checksum calculation
> result. For unsupported frames "ffff" is attached to checksum calculation
> result. Cases like IPV6, IPV4 header is always set to "FFFF".
> 
> we can test this functionality by the below commands
> 
> ethtool -K eth0 rx on --> to turn on Rx checksum offload
> ethtool -K eth0 rx off --> to turn off Rx checksum offload
> 
> Biju Das (2):
>   ravb: Fillup ravb_set_features_gbeth() stub
>   ravb: Add Rx checksum offload support

   That's all fine but why in the world did you separate these patches?

MBR, Sergey



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