netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 3/6] igb/ixgbe: remove unecessary checks for CHECKSUM

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Message-Id: <20090428.015438.178164366.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:54:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 3/6] igb/ixgbe: remove unecessary checks for
 CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:35:33 -0700

> Both of these drivers do a check to verify ip_summed is set to
> CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY prior to passing the packet to GRO.  GRO itself
> already does such a check so it is redundant and can be removed as this
> will likely cause out of order issues when receiving a packet that didn't
> pass checksum validation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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