On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 06:50:13AM -0400, Mike Pattrick wrote: > From: Flavio Leitner <[email protected]> > > The netdev receiving packets is supposed to provide the flags > indicating if the L4 checksum was verified and it is OK or BAD, > otherwise the stack will check when appropriate by software. > > If the packet comes with good checksum, then postpone the > checksum calculation to the egress device if needed. > > When encapsulate a packet with that flag, set the checksum > of the inner L4 header since that is not yet supported. > > Calculate the L4 checksum when the packet is going to be sent > over a device that doesn't support the feature. > > Linux tap devices allows enabling L3 and L4 offload, so this > patch enables the feature. However, Linux socket interface > remains disabled because the API doesn't allow enabling > those two features without enabling TSO too. > > Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <[email protected]> > Co-authored-by: Mike Pattrick <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Mike Pattrick <[email protected]>
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