Re: Need some help with IP/TCP Checksum Offload

[Ion Badulescu]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:57:22 -0800, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> I am trying to offload checksum calculation to my hardware. What i am doing in my driver (kernel 2.4.6) is :
> 
> dev->features = NETIF_F_IP_CHECKSUM;
> 
> Then, in my start_xmit( ) routine, i am parsing for the right headers & when i get the IP/TCP header, i print out the checksum & it is already the right checksum. When does the OS/Protocol offload this task? Am i missing something here?

I haven't looked at this in a long time, but at the time the checksum
offloading support was introduced, the IP stack needed both NETIF_F_SG
and NETIF_F_IP_CSUM in dev->features before it would start offloading.

The idea was that cksum support without scatter-gather support is useless,
because the csum gets calculated essentially for free while copying the data
to linearize the skbuf.

Ion

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