netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] net: Do not include padding in TCP GRO checksum

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Date:	Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:43:50 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	edumazet@...gle.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: Do not include padding in TCP GRO checksum

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 08:34:27PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 08:47:38 +0800
> 
> > Also, if the padding occurs on every single packet or a fairly
> > large amount of packets then you should consider improving
> > pskb_trim_rcsum to keep the CHECKSUM_COMPLETE value.
> 
> It should be as easy as this?  (this is actually just a 3 line change,
> it looks like more because I'm moving pskb_trim_rcsum() later in the
> file to where skb_checksum() is in scope).

Looks good to me.  Thanks!
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