netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] ravb: RX checksum offload

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Date:   Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:26:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     horms+renesas@...ge.net.au
Cc:     sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com, magnus.damm@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] ravb: RX checksum offload

From: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@...ge.net.au>
Date: Wed,  4 Oct 2017 09:54:27 +0200

> Add support for RX checksum offload. This is enabled by default and
> may be disabled and re-enabled using ethtool:
> 
>  # ethtool -K eth0 rx off
>  # ethtool -K eth0 rx on
> 
> The RAVB provides a simple checksumming scheme which appears to be
> completely compatible with CHECKSUM_COMPLETE: sum of all packet data after
> the L2 header is appended to packet data; this may be trivially read by the
> driver and used to update the skb accordingly.
> 
> In terms of performance throughput is close to gigabit line-rate both with
> and without RX checksum offload enabled. Perf output, however, appears to
> indicate that significantly less time is spent in do_csum(). This is as
> expected.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@...ge.net.au>

Applied, thanks Simon.