David Edmondson <dme@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> When I extended the netback protocol for TSO the idea was that you
>> can also have an extra descriptor for checksum offload that would
>> carry the offsets.
>
> But that offset is not present today, suggesting that the peer
> receiving the packet must be parsing it to determine where to place
> the checksum (though I couldn't find that code in a quick inspection).
What I meant is that the checksum offload can use the same mechanism
as GSO to pass the offset in a descriptor. This has not been implemented
yet.
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