On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 09:40:05AM -0400, Vladislav Yasevich wrote:
> Adds a new tun offload flag to allow for SCTP checksum offload.
> The flag has to be set by the user and defaults to "no offload".
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@xxxxxxxxxx>
When would user set this flag? Wouldn't that be when
userspace is ready to get SCTP packets without a checksum?
Seems to be this is an indication that when userspace
is qemu running a guest, said guest needs to communicate
the new ability to qemu.
> ---
> drivers/net/tun.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> index a1ba262..263bcbe 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> @@ -2719,6 +2719,11 @@ static int set_offload(struct tun_struct *tun, unsigned long arg)
> arg &= ~TUN_F_UFO;
> }
>
> + if (arg & TUN_F_SCTP_CSUM) {
> + features |= NETIF_F_SCTP_CRC;
> + arg &= ~TUN_F_SCTP_CSUM;
> + }
> +
> /* This gives the user a way to test for new features in future by
> * trying to set them. */
> if (arg)
> --
> 2.9.5
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