Re: [PATCH] Ethernet Bridging: Enable Hardware Checksumming

[Nivedita Singhvi <niv@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David S. Miller wrote:

> > I think this is a good thing to have, gives us performance
> > gain (equivalent to using/not using checksum offload) and
> > has very little impact on the bridging layer, and is
> > independent of the virtualization stuff..
>
> I agree but keep in mind that when bridging over non-checksumming
> devices it will be more expensive.  Especially for TCP.
Yep - as I just said to Herbert - perhaps worthwhile then
conditional upon support of checksum offload & SG?

thanks,
Nivedita