netdev - Re: Adding Support for SG,GSO,GRO

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:20:28 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>
Cc:	David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, srk@...com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: Adding Support for SG,GSO,GRO

On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 17:01 +0100, Michał Mirosław wrote:
[...]
> The question is do we really want good checksum for bogus data?
[...]

It's not bogus data.  It's a snapshot of the file contents at some
arbitrary point in time.

Now please stop wasting your own time and that of the networking
maintainers, and remember to check for checksum offload next time you
need to select a network controller.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html