On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 07:37:53PM +0530, Numan Siddique wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:34:42AM +0530, Numan Siddique wrote:
> > > ovn-controller by default enables UDP checksums for geneve
> > > tunnels. With this patch user can set the desired value in
> > > Open_vSwitch.external_ids:ovn_encap_csum.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <[email protected]>
> >
> > I don't see technical problems with this, but I also don't know why a
> > user would want to disable checksums.  Can you send a v2 that adds this
> > rationale to the documentation and to the commit message?
> >
> 
> Thanks for the review. Sure I will do that. The reason for this patch is -
> we are seeing significant performance increase (more than 100%) in our
> testing when tunnel checksum is disabled.​
> 
> ​The lab servers have nics with geneve offload support (
> tx-udp_tnl-segmentation
> ​)​
> .​

OK, that sounds like a good reason to document.
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