netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: igb: use skb_csum_is

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:24:09 -0800
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Cc:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-sctp @ vger . kernel . org" <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: igb: use skb_csum_is_sctp instead of
 protocol check

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:14 PM Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Using skb_csum_is_sctp is a easier way to validate it's a SCTP
> CRC checksum offload packet, and there is no need to parse the
> packet to check its proto field, especially when it's a UDP or
> GRE encapped packet.
>
> So this patch also makes igb support SCTP CRC checksum offload
> for UDP and GRE encapped packets.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@...com>