netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 2/2] ravb: Add Tx checksum offload support for GbEth

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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 22:59:02 +0300
From: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>
To: Biju Das <biju.das.jz@...renesas.com>, "David S. Miller"
	<davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
	<kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
CC: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@...renesas.com>, Yoshihiro Shimoda
	<yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>, Wolfram Sang
	<wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>, Nikita Yushchenko
	<nikita.yoush@...entembedded.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>, Geert Uytterhoeven
	<geert+renesas@...der.be>, Prabhakar Mahadev Lad
	<prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@...renesas.com>, Biju Das <biju.das.au@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 2/2] ravb: Add Tx checksum offload support for
 GbEth

On 2/7/24 12:28 PM, Biju Das wrote:

> TOE has hardware support for calculating IP header and TCP/UDP/ICMP
> checksum for both IPv4 and IPv6.
> 
> Add Tx checksum offload supported by TOE for IPv4 and TCP/UDP.
> 
> For Tx, the result of checksum calculation is set to the checksum field of
> each IPv4 Header/TCP/UDP/ICMP of ethernet frames. For the unsupported
> frames, those fields are not changed. If a transmission frame is an UDPv4
> frame and its checksum value in the UDP header field is 0x0000, TOE does
> not calculate checksum for UDP part of this frame as it is optional
> function as per standards.
> 
> We can test this functionality by the below commands
> 
> ethtool -K eth0 tx on --> to turn on Tx checksum offload
> ethtool -K eth0 tx off --> to turn off Tx checksum offload
> 
> Signed-off-by: Biju Das <biju.das.jz@...renesas.com>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>

[...]

MBR, Sergey