From: David S. Miller Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 04:36:35 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Merge branch 'csums-next' X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.13.0-19.19~19222^2~177 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c5a65680b3c29ddf8f4a0bfb4ba75ea230735a38;p=mirror_ubuntu-jammy-kernel.git Merge branch 'csums-next' Tom Herbert says: ==================== net: Checksum offload changes - Part VI I am working on overhauling RX checksum offload. Goals of this effort are: - Specify what exactly it means when driver returns CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY - Preserve CHECKSUM_COMPLETE through encapsulation layers - Don't do skb_checksum more than once per packet - Unify GRO and non-GRO csum verification as much as possible - Unify the checksum functions (checksum_init) - Simplify code What is in this seventh patch set: - Add skb->csum. This allows a device or GRO to indicate that an invalid checksum was detected. - Checksum unncessary to checksum complete conversions. With these changes, I believe that the third goal of the overhaul is now mostly achieved. In the case of no encapsulation or one layer of encapsulation, there should only be at most one skb_checksum over each packet (between GRO and normal path). In the case of two layers of encapsulation, it is still possible with the right combination of non-zero and zero UDP checksums to have >1 skb_checksum. For instance: IP>GRE(with csum)>IP>UDP(zero csum)>VXLAN>IP>UDP(non-zero csum), would likely necessiate an skb_checksum in GRO and normal path. This doesn't seem like a common scenario at all so I'm inclined to not address this now, if multiple layers of encapsulation becomes popular we can reassess. Note that checksum conversion shows a nice improvement for RX VXLAN when outer UDP checksum is enabled (12.65% CPU compared to 20.94%). This is not only from the fact that we don't need checksum calculation on the host, but also allows GRO for VXLAN in this case. Checksum conversion does not help send side (which still needs to perform a checksum on host). For that we will implement remote checksum offload in a later patch (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-herbert-remotecsumoffload-00). Please review carefully and test if possible, mucking with basic checksum functions is always a little precarious :-) ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- c5a65680b3c29ddf8f4a0bfb4ba75ea230735a38