[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH V3 1/2] ixgbe: Add support for UDP-encapsulated tx checksum offload

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Sat Jun 13 01:55:22 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Mark D Rustad <mark.d.rustad at intel.com> wrote:
> From: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad at intel.com>
>
> By using GSO for UDP-encapsulated packets, all ixgbe devices can
> be directed to generate checksums for the inner headers because
> the outer UDP checksum can be zero. So point the machinery at the
> inner headers and have the hardware generate the checksum.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad at intel.com>

Thanks, this looks nice to me now.


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