netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/3] geneve: Remote Checksum Offload support

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Message-ID: <CAEh+42ixrSG7sXF0AjFDQKSmSojyzVYWe_MsJan1CnEXhvRTpA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:10:27 -0800
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/3] geneve: Remote Checksum Offload support

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com> wrote:
>>> Add support for remote checksum offload in both the normal and GRO
>>> paths. netlinks command are used to enable sending of the Remote
>>> Checksum Data, and allow processing of it on receive.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
>>
>> Tom, can you please split this patch off and mark it as RFC or similar?
>>
>> I don't have any objections to implementing remote checksum offload
>> for Geneve in general but I think that it's pretty clear that the
>> format that you are using here is not the direction that the protocol
>> is going to evolve. We don't need to fragment the protocol by applying
>> this at this time.
>
> The first two patches were accepted, you should have enough to
> implement the remote checksum patches in the TLV format so you can
> take it from here.

Thanks, I'll pick it up from here.
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