netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bnx2x: Fix GSO for 57710/57711 chips

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Message-Id: <20130520.005732.1368878689207038499.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 20 May 2013 00:57:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yuvalmin@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dmitry@...adcom.com, eilong@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bnx2x: Fix GSO for 57710/57711 chips

From: "Yuval Mintz" <yuvalmin@...adcom.com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 17:41:01 +0300

> Starting with commit 91226790bbe2dbfbba48dd79d49f2b38ef10eb97
> `bnx2x: use FW 7.8.17', the bnx2x driver no longer requests the FW to perform
> IP checksums for IPv4 packets.
> 
> This behaviour needs to be revised for 57710/57711 chips -
> when using GSO, if the driver will not set the IP checksum flag then packets
> will be transmitted by the chip without a valid IP checksum, resulting in
> a drop of all such packets on the receiver-side.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>

Applied, thanks.
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