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From: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] ip_chksum not updated in ipsec-secgw application
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:25:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f83b6a7-08ae-f1c1-9efc-e9798bba355e@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11219047.piiXn93FtH@xps13>

On 18/07/2016 15:09, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-07-18 14:57, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy:
>> On 18/07/2016 14:53, Akhil Goyal wrote:
>>> On 7/18/2016 6:50 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>>> 2016-07-18 13:57, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy:
>>>>> On 18/07/2016 13:41, Akhil Goyal wrote:
>>>>>> In Ipsec-secgw application, while adding the outer IP header,
>>>>>> it seems that the application does not update the checksum value
>>>>>> for outbound packets. This result in incorrect ip->checksum in
>>>>>> the encrypted packet.
>>>> [...]
>>>>> It is intentional. The application is using IP checksum offload
>>>> The correct behaviour is to have a software fallback (using rte_ip.h)
>>>> for drivers which do not support checksum offload.
>>>> But given it is just an example, it is normal to have this kind of
>>>> constraint. However I think it should be explained in its doc.
>>>> And a list of tested NICs would be nice to have.
>>>>
>>> Agreed. The driver that I was using did not enable checksum offload.
>>> It is good to have a fallback option.
>> That's a good point.
>> So would it be enough to call out in the sample app guide that we use IP
>> checksum offload and
>> show a warning in case the Driver does not support such offload?
> Yes
> and a list of tested NICs would make it perfect :)

There is no mention of specific tested hardware in the example guides, 
is there?

I would prefer to just point to doc/guides/nics/overview.rst to check if 
the NIC supports
IP checksum offload and in the application itself check for such 
capability and display a
warning in case it is not supported.

Sergio

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-18 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-18 12:41 Akhil Goyal
2016-07-18 12:57 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-07-18 13:20   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-07-18 13:53     ` Akhil Goyal
2016-07-18 13:57       ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2016-07-18 14:09         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-07-18 14:25           ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy [this message]
2016-07-18 13:49   ` Akhil Goyal
2016-07-18 14:00     ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy

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