netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Make skb_segment not to compute checksum if network controller supports checksumming

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Date:   Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:01:50 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com
Cc:     kyk.segfault@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Make skb_segment not to compute checksum if
 network controller supports checksumming

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:30:56 -0500

> Can you contrast this against a run with your changes? The thought is
> that the majority of this cost is due to the memory loads and stores, not
> the arithmetic ops to compute the checksum. When enabling checksum
> offload, the same stalls will occur, but will simply be attributed to
> memcpy instead of to do_csum.

Agreed.