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

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Message-Id: <20080822.173625.182460185.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:36:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	opurdila@...acom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] ip: skip IP checksum for skbs with
 CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY set

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:33:20 -0400

> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:24:31 +0300
> Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > We are working on a completely in hardware LRO implementation and this patch 
> > would simplify the hardware implementation. Is this acceptable?
> > 
> > --- a/net/ipv4/ip_input.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_input.c
> > @@ -415,7 +415,8 @@ int ip_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packet_type *pt,
> >  
> >         iph = ip_hdr(skb);
> >  
> > -       if (unlikely(ip_fast_csum((u8 *)iph, iph->ihl)))
> > +       if (!skb_csum_unnecessary(skb) &&
> > +           unlikely(ip_fast_csum((u8 *)iph, iph->ihl)))
> >                 goto inhdr_error;
> >  
> >         len = ntohs(iph->tot_len);
> > 
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> The overhead of the additional conditional might outweigh any benefit.

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 :-)
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