netdev - Re: [PATCH] veth: remove hardware checksum feature

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Date:	Wed, 07 Aug 2013 19:52:05 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	"Vitaly E. Lavrov" <lve@...p.ru>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] veth: remove hardware checksum feature

On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 18:54 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> Maybe we should just do the csum calc in the kernel if packet is
> about to be sent up to user-space via af_packet?  I think that
> would keep the expected behaviour, and hopefully not loose any of the performance
> benefits for cases where the packet never leaves the kernel?

I think you are rephrasing what I suggested ;)

I'll send a patch asap, unless someone beats me.


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