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:	Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:53:43 +0100
From:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/16] skge: convert to hw_features

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 08:45:02AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:14:14 +0100 (CET)
> Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl> wrote:
> > The hardware might do full HW_CSUM, not just IP_CSUM, but it's not tested
> > and so not changed here.
> > Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
> The skge hardware does not do full HW_CSUM. It looks at the IP header.

Driver code suggests otherwise. Please look at skge_xmit_frame() and TX
descriptor format.

Besides, I'm locally using a patch that makes skge advertise HW_CSUM - TCP
over IPv6 is correctly checksummed in hardware (haven't tried VLANs yet).

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
--
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

Powered by blists - more mailing lists