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

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Hi Sergey Shtylyov,

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

OK, as you suggested will merge this patches and send an RFC for further feedback.

Regards,
Biju




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