[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/6] datapath: compat: Use checksum offload for outer header.

[pravin shelar]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org> wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at ovn.org>
>> ---
>>  datapath/linux/compat/include/net/udp.h |  2 +-
>>  datapath/linux/compat/udp.c             | 19 ++-----------------
>>  datapath/linux/compat/udp_tunnel.c      | 17 +----------------
>>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
> Can you give some more information on this? Is it a bug fix,
> performance improvement, or cleanup?

How about following commit msg.
Following patch simplifies UDP-checksum routine by unconditionally
using checksum offload for non GSO packets. We might get some
performance improvement due to code simplification.