On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Alexander Duyck <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the case of the mlx4 and mlx5 driver they do not support IPv6 checksum
> offload for tunnels.  With this being the case we should disable GSO in
> addition to the checksum offload features when we find that a device cannot
> perform a checksum on a given packet type.
>
I'm not sure I understand this. If device can't support checksum
offload for tunnels doesn't that mean we have to do the checksum on
host regardless of whether GSO is being done?

Tom

> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
> ---
>  net/core/dev.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 77a71cd68535..5c925ac50b95 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -2802,7 +2802,7 @@ static netdev_features_t harmonize_features(struct 
> sk_buff *skb,
>
>         if (skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_NONE &&
>             !can_checksum_protocol(features, type)) {
> -               features &= ~NETIF_F_CSUM_MASK;
> +               features &= ~(NETIF_F_CSUM_MASK | NETIF_F_GSO_MASK);
>         } else if (illegal_highdma(skb->dev, skb)) {
>                 features &= ~NETIF_F_SG;
>         }
>

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