netdev - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] ip: skip IP checksum for skbs with CHECKSUM

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Date:	Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:15:17 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	davem@...emloft.net (David Miller)
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, opurdila@...acom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] ip: skip IP checksum for skbs with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY set

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> I don't think they want this for performance, they want to not have to
> compute the IP header checksum in their HW LRO implementation, which
> is just as silly :-)

I sure hope they're not planning on leaving out the IP header
checksum verification too :)
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