[ofa-general] [PATCHv2] IB/ipoib: S/G and HW checksum support

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:11:33PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> I know some people find this approach controversial,
> but from my perspective, this is not worse than e.g.
> SDP which does not have SW checksums pretty much by design.

This would be alot better in my mind of the option was negotiated as
part of the CM setup process. Otherwise this becomes a network wide
all or nothing kind of feature..

What if the RXing Linux IB side is acting as a forwarder to ethernet?
It will forward corrupt packets if this option is set, right?

Jason