netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: postpone the checksum calculation

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Message-ID: <4C319A4E.5080507@trash.net>
Date:	Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:39:42 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: postpone the checksum calculation

Changli Gao wrote:
> netfilter: postpone the checksum calculation.
>
> postpone the checksum calculation, then if the output NIC supports checksum
> offloading, we can utlize it. And though the output NIC doesn't support
> checksum offloading, but we'll mangle this packet, this can free us from
> updating the checksum, as the checksum calculation occurs later.

Applied, thanks.
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