From: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:02:42 -0700
> From: Bruce Allan <[email protected]> > > Currently only used when packet split mode is enabled with jumbo frames, > IP payload checksum (for fragmented UDP packets) is mutually exclusive with > receive hashing offload since the hardware uses the same space in the > receive descriptor for the hardware-provided packet checksum and the RSS > hash, respectively. Users currently must disable jumbos when receive > hashing offload is enabled, or vice versa, because of this incompatibility. > Since testing has shown that IP payload checksum does not provide any real > benefit, just remove it so that there is no longer a choice between jumbos > or receive hashing offload but not both as done in other Intel GbE drivers > (e.g. e1000, igb). > > Also, add a missing check for IP checksum error reported by the hardware; > let the stack verify the checksum when this happens. > > CC: stable <[email protected]> [3.4] > Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <[email protected]> > Tested-by: Aaron Brown <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]> Applied, thanks Jeff. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
