Re: [9front] [patch] ethervgbe: add rx checksum offloading

[Arne Meyer <meyer.arne83@netcologne.de>]

To be honest, no. I was reading through the source code and found out that
the ip stack supports RX checksum offloading, so i thought it was fun to implement it.
The vgbe driver is my pet project.
It's been in my local repo and kernel for about a week now and it didn't hurt. Blocks get send up the stack anyway, 
the only difference is that the code sets the flags for the blocks. Worst case scenario here is that the driver flags checksums as valid even when they are not.
OpenBSD and FreeBSD both support it, so i think it's stable(ish). But as a fellow network admin, I somewhat agree
with you.

> hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> hat am 11.11.2022 17:01 GMT geschrieben:
> 
>  
> did you find concrete use cases where it's worth offloading this?
> some kind of actual bottleneck?
> in practice one of my most frequent network administration related
> tasks is to turn off all kinds of weird (broken) offloading features
> on random ethernet cards.
> 
> On 11/11/22, Arne Meyer <meyer.arne83@netcologne.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > this patch implements rx tcp and udp checksum offloading for ipv4 for the
> > ethervgbe nic driver.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Arne