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From: George Prekas <prekageo@amazon.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>,
	Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>,
	Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] app/testpmd: fix IP checksum calculation
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 10:35:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56967649-1494-aacf-ce65-9df575233b86@amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201203080812.3d9940c9@hermes.local>

On 12/3/2020 10:08 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 07:59:54 -0600
> George Prekas <prekageo@amazon.com> wrote:
>
>> Insert a compiler barrier to make sure that the IP checksum calculation
>> happens after setting all the fields of the IP header.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: George Prekas <prekageo@amazon.com>
> I don't think this is necessary. All other OS's don't have to do this.
> The CPU is going to maintain proper memory order.

Hi Stephen,

This is not a CPU or OS issue. This is a compiler issue. The compiler is 
free to reorder statements if it does not detect dependencies between 
them. Without this compiler barrier, the calculated IP checksum is wrong.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-03 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-03 13:59 George Prekas
2020-12-03 16:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-12-03 16:35   ` George Prekas [this message]
2020-12-03 18:33     ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-12-04  8:59 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-12-05  5:47   ` George Prekas
2020-12-05  5:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " George Prekas
2021-01-05 16:26   ` George Prekas
2021-01-06 18:02   ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-07  5:25     ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-01-07  5:39     ` George Prekas
2021-01-07 11:32       ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-07 13:06         ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-07 14:20         ` George Prekas
2021-01-07 15:22           ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-07 20:45             ` George Prekas
2021-01-07 15:50       ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-01-07 15:59         ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-07 16:29           ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-01-07 20:42   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " George Prekas
2021-01-18 15:20     ` Ferruh Yigit

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