[Bridge] sky2 hw csum failure
Stephen Hemminger
shemminger at vyatta.com
Tue Nov 15 17:45:16 UTC 2011
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:28:55 +0800
"Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan at intel.com> wrote:
> I re-tested the checksum code, both CHECKSUM_NONE and CHECKSUM_COMPLETE
> cases are OK. Maybe the bug is related to sky2.
>
> Regards
> Yan, Zheng
There are three types of receive checksumming:
1. Hardware does not do checksumming (CHECKSUM_NONE)
2. Hardware validates checksum (CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY)
3. Hardware computes sum of bytes in skb (CHECKSUM_COMPLETE)
Most hardware does #2, but sky2 uses #3.
For the second case, the hardware does not look at headers but only
reports the one's complement value in ip_summed. It is up to the
protocol layers to adjust accordingly. This means if data is removed
or added the checksum needs to be adjusted.
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