netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5] cadence: Add LSO support.

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2016 06:35:09 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Rafal Ozieblo <rafalo@...ence.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "nicolas.ferre@...el.com" <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5] cadence: Add LSO support.

On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 09:32 +0000, Rafal Ozieblo wrote:
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net] 
> Sent: 10 listopada 2016 18:01
> To: Rafal Ozieblo
> Cc: nicolas.ferre@...el.com; netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5]] cadence: Add LSO support.
> 
> From: Rafal Ozieblo <rafalo@...ence.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 13:41:02 +0000
> 
> > First, please remove the spurious closing bracket in your Subject line in future submittions.
> >
> >> +	if (is_udp) /* is_udp is only set when (is_lso) is checked */
> >> +		/* zero UDP checksum, not calculated by h/w for UFO */
> >> +		udp_hdr(skb)->check = 0;
> >
> > This is really not ok.
> > 
> > If UFO is in use it should not silently disable UDP checksums.
> > 
> > If you cannot support UFO with proper checksumming, then you cannot enable support for that feature.
> 
> According Cadence Gigabit Ethernet MAC documentation:
> 
> "Hardware will not calculate the UDP checksum or modify the UDP checksum field. Therefore software
> must set a value of zero in the checksum field in the UDP header (in the first payload buffer)
> to indicate to the receiver that the UDP datagram does not include a checksum."
> 
> It is hardware requirement.

Then do not claim NETIF_F_UFO suport in the driver, if hardware is
absolutely not capable of handling this.

Linux stack will provide proper udp checksum.

Almost no driver sets NETIF_F_UFO.