Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Network Checksum Removal

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25 May 2005, at 21:06, Ian Pratt wrote:

> > There is a patch on netdev which can decrease the CPU load of
> > bridging.
> > specifically, it allows the bridge device to take advantage
> > of the network device features (like hardware checksum
> > offload).  Stephen Hemminger says it should go in the 2.6.13 kernel.
> Please can you post it as a patch so that we can include it in our
> 2.6.11 patches directory.
>
> With the patch, csum offload will be much more interesting in the rx
> case
The code we already have offloads rx csums both for dom0 and domU's 
(the dom0 traffic has to be received through veth0 though, not the 
bridge device itself).
 -- Keir


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