Re: [GIT PULL] x86/misc for 6.5

[Herbert Xu]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> but doesn't most network hardware do the csum on its own anyway? How
> critical is csum_partial(), really?

That hardware will checksum the bulk of the packet, but we still
need to checksum the header bits (e.g., 40 bytes or less) when we
add and remove headers in software.

The one exception is Realtek drivers which seems to come with
checksum offload disabled by default.

Cheers,
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