linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] aoe: mark AoE packets as requiring no checksumming

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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:25:03 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Ed Cashin <ecashin@...aid.com>
CC:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<jesse@...ira.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] aoe: mark AoE packets as requiring no checksumming

On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 18:17 -0700, Ed Cashin wrote:
> In order for the network layer to see that AoE requires
> no checksumming in a generic way, packets should be marked
> CHECKSUM_NONE.

Which they are by default.

> Rather than relying on the current behavior of alloc_skb,
> this change causes the aoe driver to explicitly mark its
> packets as requiring no checksum.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@...aid.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
> index de0435e..0ba1b63 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ new_skb(ulong len)
>  		skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
>  		skb_reset_network_header(skb);
>  		skb->protocol = __constant_htons(ETH_P_AOE);
> +		skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;

Can be written as:
		skb_checksum_none_assert(skb);
if you really want to be sure.

Ben.

>  	}
>  	return skb;
>  }

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