netdev - Re: [Patch net] net: invert the check of detecting hardware RX checksum fault

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Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:42:10 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] net: invert the check of detecting hardware RX
 checksum fault

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:15 PM Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 8:52 PM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > You could use trafgen to cook such a frame and confirm the theory.
> >
> > Something like :
>
> I will try it.

I just tried it, it doesn't make much difference, the warning only
shows up once after I ran the trafgen script for many times,
it could be triggered by other daemons running on the host too.