[ofa-general] [PATCH 13 of 17]: add LRO support
Eli Cohen
eli at mellanox.co.il
Mon Oct 8 07:16:48 PDT 2007
> Since you have posted the patch, I am asking you if it has any negative
> influence on packet forwarding.
>
> I am not asking you to test it or whether you tested it with forwarding.
>
The answer is yes since I do not recalculate TCP checksum as I aggregate
the SKBs so the kernel might forward the TCP segment as multiple IP
packets but with wrong TCP checksum (which is that of the first
aggregated packet) but not of the overall aggregated segment.
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