[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/enic: set L4 checksum flags for IPv6 packets
Hyong Youb Kim
hyonkim at cisco.com
Wed Jan 24 18:30:30 CET 2018
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 05:18:37PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 1/23/2018 1:05 AM, John Daley wrote:
> > From: Hyong Youb Kim <hyonkim at cisco.com>
> >
> > enic_cq_rx_to_pkt_flags() currently sets checksum good/bad flags only
> > for IPv4. The hardware actually validates the TCP/UDP checksum of
> > IPv6 packets too. Set PKT_RX_L4_CKSUM_{GOOD,BAD} accordingly.
[...]
> > /* checksum flags */
> > - if (mbuf->packet_type & RTE_PTYPE_L3_IPV4) {
> > + if (mbuf->packet_type & (RTE_PTYPE_L3_IPV4 | RTE_PTYPE_L3_IPV6)) {
> > if (!enic_cq_rx_desc_csum_not_calc(cqrd)) {
> > uint32_t l4_flags;
> > l4_flags = mbuf->packet_type & RTE_PTYPE_L4_MASK;
> >
> > if (enic_cq_rx_desc_ipv4_csum_ok(cqrd))
> > pkt_flags |= PKT_RX_IP_CKSUM_GOOD;
> > - else
> > + else if (mbuf->packet_type & RTE_PTYPE_L3_IPV4)
>
> This looks like conflicting with commit log.
> Is pkt_flags intentionally not set for this case?
> If so can you update commit log to say only PKT_RX_IP_CKSUM_GOOD set for ipv6?
>
> > pkt_flags |= PKT_RX_IP_CKSUM_BAD;
Yes, it is intentional. IPv6 has no IP header checksum, and
PKT_RX_IP_CKSUM_{GOOD,BAD} does not apply. So, the code does not set
PKT_RX_IP_CKSUM for IPv6. As the commit log says, for IPv6, we are
only setting L4 checksum flags.
-Hyong
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