[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: skip checksum of gro packet

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Mon Jul 27 17:54:01 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Zang MingJie <zealot0630 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Newer kernel will do gro on vxlan packet, after gro the tcp checksum
> encapsulated in the packet is wrong but the origin checksum is already
> verified.
>
> The patch skips verifying checksum of all gro packets.

I think this solution is too narrowly tailored to VXLAN and GRO and
won't catch all cases.. I believe that Pravin is currently working on
a more general solution.



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