Re: [PATCH 3/6] mv643xx_eth: fix hw checksum generation on transmit

[Dale Farnsworth]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:27:16PM +0000, Manish Lachwani wrote:
> Hi Dale,
> 
> Just want to let you know that the checksum offload code worked well in 
> 2.4. I have the numbers with me. On a Jaguar ATX board (Discovery II 
> controller), TCP throughput measured using netperf was 920 Mb/s. As far 
> as 2.6 goes, I dont have any idea if the checksum offload worked
> 
> Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> >This patch fixes the code that enables hardware checksum generation.
> >The previous code has so many problems that it appears to never have 
> >worked.

I haven't tried it on 2.4, so can't comment there.  Something like
my patch seems needed for 2.6 though.  So, I'll revise my comment
to say that I don't see how the previous code could have worked on
current 2.6

-Dale
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