netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 0/8] vxlan: bug fixes

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Date:	Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:59:03 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/8] vxlan: bug fixes

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:42:20 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 23:35:45 -0700
> 
> > Revision to earlier patch set for vxlan, includes a couple
> > more issues.
> 
> Applied, but that checksum issue is extremely unfortunate.
> 
> Why does postpull rcsum work for GRE but not VXLAN?

Not sure, plan to investigate getting rx checksum offload
working and possibly tx checksum (using checksum start).
Part of the problem with Tx checksum is too many drivers are
looking directly at skb_network_header() and skb_transport_header()
when they should be using skb_checksum_start().
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