netdev - Re: Checksum offload queries

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Message-Id: <20151208.122830.2146242421346445433.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:28:30 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ecree@...arflare.com
Cc:	tom@...bertland.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Checksum offload queries

From: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 17:24:55 +0000

> The context here was transmit, not receive; the stack muxes
> encapsulation layers and then asks the hardware to fill in one
> checksum, it doesn't have any way to fill in 'adjusted' checksums in
> other layers.  The following paragraph (which you snipped) was
> discussing ways to get this kind of adjusted checksumming on
> transmit, by feeding the adjustments to the hardware.

[ Please properly line-wrap your emails, it looks like one very long
  line to everyone on the list. ]

See Tom's reply re: TX.
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