netdev - Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] ixgbe: fix for 82599 errata marking UDP checksum errors

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Date:	Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:21:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com,
	donald.c.skidmore@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] ixgbe: fix for 82599 errata marking UDP
 checksum errors

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:00:39 -0700

> From: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>
> 
> There is an 82599 errata that UDP frames with a zero checksum are
> incorrectly marked as checksum invalid by the hardware.  This was
> leading to misleading hw_csum_rx_error counts. This patch adds a
> test around this counter increase for this condition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied, thanks.

But I wonder.   When you compute a checksum, and it's zero,
you have to use the complement as the checksum value.  How
does that relate to the problem being tackled here?

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