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[net-next,2/2] drivers/net/oki-semi: Donot recompute IP header checksum

Message ID 1335510073-14018-2-git-send-email-roy.qing.li@gmail.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Li RongQing April 27, 2012, 7:01 a.m. UTC 
From: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>

If I understand correct, NETIF_F_IP_CSUM only means the hardware 
will compute the TCP/UDP checksum, IP checksum is always computed 
in software

So as a workround of hardware unable to compute small packages 
checksum, do not need to compute IP header checksum.

Signed-off-by: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
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 .../net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c   |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller April 29, 2012, 2 a.m. UTC | #1 
From: roy.qing.li@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:01:13 +0800

> From: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
> 
> If I understand correct, NETIF_F_IP_CSUM only means the hardware 
> will compute the TCP/UDP checksum, IP checksum is always computed 
> in software
> 
> So as a workround of hardware unable to compute small packages 
> checksum, do not need to compute IP header checksum.
> 
> Signed-off-by: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@gmail.com>

Applied.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c
index 835e3bb..107f41a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/oki-semi/pch_gbe/pch_gbe_main.c
@@ -1240,8 +1240,6 @@  static void pch_gbe_tx_queue(struct pch_gbe_adapter *adapter,
 		if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP)) {
 			struct iphdr *iph = ip_hdr(skb);
 			unsigned int offset;
-			iph->check = 0;
-			iph->check = ip_fast_csum((u8 *) iph, iph->ihl);
 			offset = skb_transport_offset(skb);
 			if (iph->protocol == IPPROTO_TCP) {
 				skb->csum = 0;