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Message-ID: <CA+mtBx9TCtHgW=TegUgjZ6Se=mP+0CNiNHYmbYHPd1cJJGYoBQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:59:59 -0700
From:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
To:	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: some failures with vxlan offloads..

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com> wrote:
> On 10/28/2014 5:36 PM, Tom Herbert wrote:
>>>
>>> I wonder if we have another bug somewhere... when both sides were
>>> offloaded,
>>> >it works even with the mlx4 bug, canyou explain that?is it possible that
>>> > the
>>> >GRO stack somehow covers on the bug when both sides are offloaded and
>>> >GRO/VXLAN comes into play?
>>>
>> Look at the receive side. As I mentioned, if the device is returning
>> checksum-unnecessary and setting csum_level to 1 (inner checksum was
>> validated) then stack won't try to verify the outer checksum. So in
>> this case if outer checksum is incorrect nobody complains about it.
>
>
> OK, I'll look there. Anything that should worries us at that stack trace I
> sent in my initial email of this thread, or you think this is related to the
> mlx4 driver checksum bug?
>
The trace doesn't seem like it would be related to a checksum bug. Do
you only see this with offload enabled?

> Or.
>
>>
>
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