netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] netdev: clarify GSO vs csum in qstats

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Message-ID: <20250213074851.7b4626e5@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:48:51 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
 pabeni@...hat.com, andrew+netdev@...n.ch, horms@...nel.org,
 willemb@...gle.com, ecree.xilinx@...il.com, neescoba@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netdev: clarify GSO vs csum in qstats

On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:39:30 -0500 Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > +          calculated the L4 checksum (which means pretty much all of them).  
> 
> Can we clarify what pretty much here means?
> 
> TSO requires checksum offload. USO with zero checksum is the only exception that
> I can think of right now.

I was worried that somehow another case will appear and the comment
will become stale. I will just delete the part in the parenthesis.