netdev - Re: csum offload and af

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Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:09:35 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...eo.de, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, anthony@...emonkey.ws,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: csum offload and af_packet

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 05:55:32PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> The whole point of the auxdata thing was that if your tool is smart
> you can get the notification that the checksum is going to be HW
> computed and therefore keep capturing at a very low cost.
> 
> But for a stupid AF_PACKET user, like dhclient currently is, there is
> no harm in COW'ing the packet header area and calculating the checksum
> for them in this case.

Right I'm not against adding this to AF_PACKET.

It's just that the virtualisation problem that started all this
is just as easily resolved by user-space.  In fact the dhcp-client
code in RHEL/Fedora has been patched to do exactly this a long time
ago.

> I kind of hope that libpcap/tcpdump has been taught about auxdata
> by now, has it? :-/

Unfortunately no.  This also means that if we do do this in AF_PACKET,
then running a packet dump on a fast outbound interface may become more
expensive.

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