Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] lro: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic

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Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
On Monday 30 July 2007 22:32, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

Second, you still need to set skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
when modified packets are flushed, else the stack will see bad
checksums for packets from CHECKSUM_COMPLETE drivers using the
skb interface.  Fixed in the attached patch.

I thought about it... As we do update the TCP checksum for aggregated
packets we could add a second ip_summed field in the net_lro_mgr struct used for aggregated packets to support HW that does not have any checksum helper functionality. These drivers could set this ip_summed field to CHECKSUM_NONE, and thus leave the checksum check to the stack. I'm not sure if these old devices benefit
a lot from LRO. So what do you think?

This might be handy, and it would also fix the problem with
CHECKSUM_PARTIAL drivers using the skb interface by allowing them
to set it to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.


Fourth, I did some traffic sniffing to try to figure out what's going
on above, and saw tcpdump complain about bad checksums.  Have you tried
running tcpdump -s 65535 -vvv?  Have you also seen bad checksums?
I seem to see this for both page- and skb-based versions of the driver.


Hmmm, can't confirm that. For our skb-based version I see
correct checksums for aggregated packets and for the page-based version as well.
I used: (tcpdump -i ethX -s 0 -w dump.bin) in combination with ethereal.
Don't see problems as well with your tcpdump command.

I'm still trying to get a handle on this.  It happens both with
page based and skb based receive for me..  I would not be
surprised if I was doing something wrong in myri10ge.  But
I don't see it without LRO, or with my LRO.  I'll let you
know when I figure it out..

In the meantime, in case you have any insight, I've left a
capture of a small "netcat" transfer of a 64KB file full
of zeros at http://www.myri.com/staff/gallatin/lro/netcat_dump.bz2

Drew

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