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Message-ID: <CAF=yD-KPrYCshpaf49jpqGDpKyUMd=oDJ2-ivjapRJXdQ+uTqg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 14:43:14 -0400
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc: Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 5/6] udp: Add support for software checksum
and GSO_PARTIAL with GSO offload
On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 2:08 PM, Alexander Duyck
<alexander.duyck@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
>
> This patch adds support for a software provided checksum and GSO_PARTIAL
> segmentation support. With this we can offload UDP segmentation on devices
> that only have partial support for tunnels.
>
> Since we are no longer needing the hardware checksum we can drop the checks
> in the segmentation code that were verifying if it was present.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
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